Progress, hope in treatment of severe virus cases
Doctors are now able to treat severe cases of the coronavirus much better than when the pandemic began, which could save many lives, experts in France and the United States said.The successful treatments involve steroids and a more aggressive use of blood thinners as well as avoiding intubation, a method that risks complications, the experts told AFP.
“It’s treatment that will be able to save lives,” according to Djillali Annane of France’s Raymond-Poincare Hospital, co-author of one of the JAMA studies. “We quickly realised that patients who ended up on the ventilator were at very low likelihood of surviving to hospital discharge,” Griffin says. Like those who are intubated, patients given oxygen therapy are placed on their stomachs to “get some air in the lung’s back zones,” which also appears to help.
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