Health care workers from Service Employees International Union gather Wednesday at Southern Hills Hospital to protest unsafe working conditions.
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Doctors still are providing routine care against a backdrop of the COVID-19 crisis.
Plasma from the blood of people who have recovered from COVID-19 is now being used to treat patients in the Las Vegas Valley with active infections.
University Medical Center in Las Vegas has spent more than $25 million on protective gear and other equipment to fight coronavirus so far this year.
University Medical Center recently began prescribing hydroxychloroquine to high-risk emergency room patients who test positive for COVID-19 but do not require immediate hospitalization.
Las Vegas paramedics dealing with a shortage of personal protective equipment — their only barrier to exposure — share their experiences, anxiety.
“It’s respiratory arrest in its true form: a sudden type of hypoxia and worsening that requires emergent intubation,” one doctor said of a pattern of rapid decline in COVID-19 patients. Such was the case with a Las Vegas radio host.
UNLV Medicine could run out of coronavirus test kits after Tuesday due to a national shortage. It has been offering curbside testing since March 24.
Pregnancy is typically full of excitement, but many expectant mothers in Las Vegas say the COVID-19 pandemic has stripped them of that emotion and replaced it with fear.
Patterns and instructions for do-it-yourself face masks are all over the Internet, and making your own is a practical solution to the nationwide shortage.