RE: Mm26 Aug 2020 10:00
Ft article today
Improved care
A third reason for the lower recent mortality is improvement in medical care.
“Doctors are getting better at assessing who should go to hospital in the first place, rather than staying at home,” said Prof Hunter. “When patients are in hospital, clinicians are learning how to treat them more successfully.”
Although there have been many small improvements, he said the biggest single advance was the breakthrough that administering the steroid dexamethasone cuts mortality in hospitalised Covid patients.
Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, said the dexamethasone study was “the most important trial result for Covid-19 so far”.
“Significant reduction in mortality in those requiring oxygen or ventilation from a widely available, safe and well-known drug?.?.?. It will save lives around the world,” he wrote on Twitter.
Its been around for years, costs next to nothing and has been proved to work on patients. Pretty much what SFX-01 is trying to achieve.
What Dexamethasone Is Used For:
As an anti-inflammatory medication. Dexamethasone relieves inflammation in various parts of the body. It is used specifically to decrease swelling (edema), associated with tumors of the spine and brain, and to treat eye inflammation.
To treat or prevent allergic reactions.
As treatment of certain kinds of autoimmune diseases, skin conditions, asthma and other lung conditions.
As treatment for a variety of cancers, such as leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma.
To treat nausea and vomiting associated with some chemotherapy drugs.
Used to stimulate appetite in cancer patients with severe appetite problems.
Also used to replace steroids in conditions of adrenal insufficiency (low production of needed steroids produced by the adrenal glands).
Note: If a drug has been approved for one use, physicians sometimes elect to use this same drug for other problems if they believe it might be helpful.
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