UMFarArcher
All-ACC
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Trump never speculates. Never.
He knew this malaria treatment - used for decades successfully and safely against malaria, also was found that those who use this - don't get the virus - and doctors overseas - thousands and thousands have had their conditions returned to normal after a bad bout of this virus.
Everyone thinks it works cause most of the people that get this virus won’t come back to the ER even if you give them robitussin and Vick’s vapor rub. So people are assuming hey “this sht works” cause they prescribe it and patients don’t come back.
Biut people on this treatment have come back and had needed intubation as well.
I was all pumped when this started cause they said azithromycin shows promise. I kept calling my pt’s back and was like hey this is probably working.
2 weeks later I wasn’t patting myself on the back.
What is working a lot more isnt the drug. What’s working is the change in treatment.
The gut feeling of everyone in Italy and nyc and everywhere else when this started was to intubated every hypoxic pt and treat them like something called ARDS. And if you look on line everywhere it says that this is what this disease leads to. But given the fact that this is America and we have the brightest mfers on the tree we figured out that this is definitely not ARDS.
Pt’s are being treated for hypoxia with less invasive maneuvers and totally different ventilator settings than pt’s with true ARDS. Out hospital is also giving pt’s anything we can including the malaria drug.
The fact is from a pharmacological standpoint no one really knows and there are even antiviral drugs that have also shown anecdotal evidence to work. Why the president and others have jumped on this drug is a head scratcher.
If anyone wants to take the time or is familiar with medicine listen to this cause it’s a complete paradigm shift to the way we are treating patients with covid.
REBEL Cast Ep79: COVID-19 - Trying Not to Intubate Early & Why ARDSnet may be the Wrong Ventilator Paradigm - REBEL EM - Emergency Medicine Blog
Hey there REBEL Cast listeners, Salim Rezaie here. For me and I am sure many COVID-19 has been quite the whirlwind. So much information, so little time to process all of it. Meanwhile, many of us are on the frontlines having to take care of these patients. Personally, I have never been so...rebelem.com
You have a really sick COVID-19 patient - IV 100 grams (200ml) ascorbic acid, follow with 50ml every two hours - and watch all this go away in 72 hours. Non-toxic, and there's no downside risk.
Damaged organs due to quick reduction in accompanying inflammation - will recover.
But 100 grams for an immediate flash oxidation, 50ml every two hours to sustain.