Doctor’s have noticed that some patients Dei due to blood clots from the virus resulting in strokes…
So they have moved to test giving blood thinning medicine to combat the clotting…
The result proved positive in about 50% of the cases…
This another method of many developed to combat the corona virus as time goes by and with less patients …Doctor’s can move from just treatment in real time to trying see what can actually be done get of the curve…
Since March, when the pandemic hit Europe and the United States, doctors have been reporting mysterious blood clots, which can be gel-like or even semisolid, in a significant subset of coronavirus patients. Autopsies of patients who died of respiratory arrest have shown that some had unusual microclots in their lungs rather than the typical damage expected. And last month, doctors reported in the New England Journal of Medicine on five unusual cases of covid-positive people in their 30 and 40s experiencing large strokes.
The Mount Sinai study focused on hospitalized patients treated at its five branches from March 14 through April 11. Among patients who were not on ventilators, those treated with blood thinners died at similar rates to those who did not get blood thinners. But they lived longer — a median of 21 days compared to 14 days.
For patients on ventilators, the difference was more significant. About 63 percent of patients who did not receive the medications died compared with 29 percent who received the treatment.
Another critical finding of the study is that giving blood thinners to these patients appears to be relatively safe. There was not a significant difference in the most dangerous side effect of anticoagulants — bleeding — in those who were on the drugs vs. those who were not.
As a result of the analysis, Fuster said, the hospital system changed its treatment protocols several days ago to begin giving patients with covid-19 higher doses of blood thinners….
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