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Mashup Score: 1COVID-19 Guideline, Part 1: Treatment and Management - 1 year(s) ago
IDSA has developed living, frequently updated evidence-based guidelines to support patients, clinicians and other health-care professionals in their decisions about treatment and management of patients with COVID-19 infection. Summarized here are the recommendations with comments related to the clinical practice guideline for the treatment and management of COVID-19.
Source: www.idsociety.orgCategories: Infectious Disease, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Study provides roadmap for using convalescent plasma as an effective COVID-19 treatment - 1 year(s) ago
A new analysis shows how convalescent plasma can be used to prevent hospitalizations and ultimately save lives, both for COVID-19 and for the next viral pandemic that inevitably arrives.
Source: Brown UniversityCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 3Efficacy and harms of convalescent plasma for treatment of hospitalized COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis - 2 year(s) ago
Introduction: We systematically reviewed benefits and harms of convalescent plasma (CP) in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Material and methods: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies assessing CP effects on hospitalized, adult COVID-19 patients were searched until…
Source: www.archivesofmedicalscience.comCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 1
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) today published final results of a nationwide multicenter study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health that show plasma from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 and whose blood contains antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the causative virus, is an effective and safe option as an early…
Source: medicalxpress.comCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 23COVID-19 Guideline, Part 1: Treatment and Management - 2 year(s) ago
IDSA has developed living, frequently updated evidence-based guidelines to support patients, clinicians and other health-care professionals in their decisions about treatment and management of patients with COVID-19 infection. Summarized here are the recommendations with comments related to the clinical practice guideline for the treatment and management of COVID-19.
Source: www.idsociety.orgCategories: Infectious Disease, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Update Alert: Revised recommendation on the use of #convalescentplasma in ambulatory patients w/ COVID-19 at high risk of progression to severe disease w/ no other treatment options. 📄: https://t.co/YRCxtdilXT #COVID19Guidelines @JGPharmD @adarsh_bhimraj @RMKGandhi @ShohamTxID https://t.co/KpXnywH362
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Mashup Score: 3
Transfusions of blood plasma donated by people who have already recovered from infection with the pandemic virus may help other patients hospitalized with COVID-19, a new international study shows.
Source: medicalxpress.comCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 21Plasma Donation - 2 year(s) ago
Make your blood donation go further by donating blood plasma. A single AB Elite donation can provide up to three units of plasma to patients in need, giving you the power to make an even greater impact.
Source: www.redcrossblood.orgCategories: Hem/Oncs, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 1Randomized Controlled Trial of Early Outpatient COVID-19 Treatment with High-Titer Convalescent Plasma - 2 year(s) ago
BACKGROUND The efficacy of polyclonal high titer convalescent plasma to prevent serious complications of COVID-19 in outpatients with recent onset of illness is uncertain. METHODS This multicenter, double-blind randomized controlled trial compared the efficacy and safety of SARS-CoV-2 high titer convalescent plasma to placebo control plasma in symptomatic adults ≥18 years positive for SARS-CoV-2…
Source: medRxivCategories: Hem/Oncs, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Convalescent plasma fails to reduce respiratory failure, death in COVID-19 pneumonia - 2 year(s) ago
Convalescent plasma failed to reduce progression to severe respiratory failure or death within 30 days in patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 pneumonia, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open.“Randomized clinical trials already published or available as preprint versions have not shown a clear benefit of [convalescent plasma] in reducing the risk of disease
Source: www.healio.comCategories: Latest Headlines, PulmonologyTweet
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Mashup Score: 0
Results from the CONTAIN COVID-19 trial showed that convalescent plasma did not meet prespecified efficacy endpoints in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. However, exploratory subgroup analyses of the trial revealed that high-titer COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) may have benefited patients before remdesivir and corticosteroids were available, indicating “a heterogenous treatment
Source: www.healio.comCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet
ICYMI, #IDSAGuidelines now recommend AGAINST routine use of #convalescentplasma among immunocompetent patients & suggests against use among #immunocompromised patients hospitalized with COVID-19. https://t.co/XdWcNHa1m7 https://t.co/TAqM8KQoKa