Search Tag: RECOVERY trial
2021 14 Dec
The use of aspirin has been proposed as a treatment for COVID-19 because of its anti-thrombotic properties. Thrombosis is a key feature of COVID-19, with 5-30% of hospitalised patients having a major venous thromboembolic event and up to 3% having an arterial thromboembolic event. The Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) trial is...Read more
2021 16 Feb
A large majority of COVID-19 infections are mild or asymptomatic. However, there is a significant portion of individuals who develop severe respiratory illness that requires hospital care, and that could progress to critical illness with hypoxic respiratory failure requiring prolonged ventilatory support. This hypoxic respiratory failure is associated...Read more