In the UK, doctors have been using dexamethasole in hospitals to treat seriously ill patients with Covid-19 since Tuesday. It is a drug that has been officially confirmed by studies to be effective,
Hospitals in the UK will start using dexamethasole to treat critically ill patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, He alth Minister Matt Hancock said. This is the result of groundbreaking research that has proven the effectiveness of the drug - the first confirmed cure for coronavirus.
- We are working with the National He alth Service to include dexamethasone in the standard therapy against Covid-19 starting this afternoon, said Hancock, adding that Wielka Britain now has access to 200,000. drug doses.
Dexamethasone in COVID-19 treatment
Dexamethasone - an inexpensive anti-inflammatory steroid drug used, inter alia, in in the treatment of rheumatism, allergies and skin diseases - was announced on Tuesday as the first drug to be clinically proven effective against Covid-19.
As the authors of the University of Oxford study RECOVERY announced on Tuesday, dexamethasone treatment has shown "clear and significant effects" in preventing death in patients requiring breathing assistance.
- It's inexpensive, available on shelves, and can immediately be used to save patients' lives around the world, said study author Peter Horby. In his opinion, the study is "a big breakthrough".
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British government chief medical adviser Chris Whitty said on Twitter that this is "the most important result of clinical trials on Covid-19 so far".
In a large-scale randomized trial, 2,104 patients received the drug and 4321 received standard of care. After 28 days, the number of deaths among patients receiving drugs was 35%. lower among people requiring a respirator and 20 percent. lower in patients requiring oxygen. The drug was not effective in less severely ill people.