Search Tag: Convalescent Plasma

ICU Management

2021 12 Oct

COVID-19 is still a new disease, and clinicians continue to struggle with finding effective treatments. Among the many treatments that have been evaluated, glucocorticoids and IL-6 receptor antagonists have been shown to reduce mortality in hospitalised COVID-19 patients, and glucocorticoids have shown benefit in critically ill patients.   Convalescent...Read more

ICU Management

2020 12 Jun

A study was conducted to evaluate the difference in clinical outcomes in severe/life-threatening COVID-19 patients treated with standard treatment versus standard treatment and convalescent plasma therapy. Convalescent plasma is blood, liquid portion, from people who have recovered from COVID-19. Convalescent plasma has antibodies that the body...Read more

ICU Management

2020 05 May

Deaths from COVID-19 continue to increase, forcing clinicians to try therapies that are not backed by strong clinical evidence.  One such treatment is convalescent plasma. This century old treatment has been used on and off during infectious disease outbreaks. In 1893, German scientists used this strategy to treat patients with diphtheria....Read more