If you’re early on in a COVID infection, is convalescent plasma for you? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Antibodies donated by people who’ve recovered from COVID infection, known as convalescent plasma, is a therapy that does have emergency use authorization by the FDA, and that must be given to hospitalized people early in the course of infection. Arturo …
If you’re infected with COVID when should you seek medical care? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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A treatment known as convalescent plasma, which is basically antibodies from someone who’s already recovered from COVID, can help in early COVID infection, but the caveat is early. Arturo Casadevall, a convalescent plasma expert at Johns Hopkins, says for people …
Why don’t clinical trials provide support for convalescent plasma therapy for COVID? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Antibodies in the blood of people who’ve had COVID and recovered can help others avoid severe cases of the disease, use of this treatment in some has shown. Yet when larger scale clinical trials were undertaken, results were largely lackluster, …
Plasma from people who’ve had COVID is underutilized as a treatment, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Convalescent plasma is plasma donated by people who’ve already had COVID and recovered. Early in the pandemic this historically successful technique was attempted to stem the tide of COVID-related death, but now the therapy has fallen into disuse. Arturo Casadevall, …
Ep28 Background vs Foreground | Center for Nursing Inquiry
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In this next podcast, Elizabeth Scala and Maddie Whalen discuss a topic that’s specific to Evidence-Based Practice projects which is the difference between a background question and a foreground question. Maddie discusses a project that she helped staff with and …
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Remote monitoring of people undergoing treatment for cancer may be especially useful with newer therapies, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Remote monitoring helps people undergoing treatment for cancer cope better with emerging symptoms, a new study concludes. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, says this strategy may be even more important as new cancer treatments …