Search Tag: lopinavir

ICU Management

Solidarity-trial-interim-results-antiviral-drugs-in-hospitalised-covid-19-patients

2021 16 Feb

Mortality trials of four antiviral drugs - remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir and interferon beta-1a were recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) to evaluate their effect in patients hospitalised with COVID-19. In March 2020, the WHO began a large international trial that included hospital inpatients to evaluate the effects...Read more

Cardiology Management

Lopinavir-ritonavir-cause-bradycardia-in-older-covid-19-patients

2020 20 Jul

Older, critically ill patients with COVID-19 who received a combination of the antiretroviral medications lopinavir and ritonavir experienced bradycardia, a  slow heart rate, more often, according to new research published  in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, an American Heart Association journal. The combination of antiretroviral...Read more

ICU Management

From-hydroxychloroquine-and-remdesivir-to-plasma-administration

2020 19 May

Clinicians are faced with a serious disease with no effective therapy. Several options are being considered to treat COVID-19, but how promising are these drugs? A  number of colleagues and friends from outside the hospital have asked me whether they should take hydroxychloroquine for their COVID-19. A friend asked me whether he should...Read more