I assume you've seen their statement by now?What does that phase entail, mate?
SIC = sepsis induced coagulopathy (essentially small blood clots developed when covid-19 triggers sepsis).Can you or anyone translate the below into council speak for my benefit please? I have a feeling it looks positive but I have no idea what much of it means.
Results: There were 449 patients with severe COVID-19 enrolled into the study, 99 of them received heparin (mainly with low molecular weight heparin) for 7 days or longer. D-dimer, prothrombin time, and age were positively, and platelet count was negatively, correlated with 28-day mortality in multivariate analysis. No difference in 28-day mortality was found between heparin users and nonusers (30.3% vs 29.7%, P = .910). But the 28-day mortality of heparin users was lower than nonusers in patients with SIC score ≥4 (40.0% vs 64.2%, P = .029), or D-dimer >6-fold of upper limit of normal (32.8% vs 52.4%, P = .017).
Conclusions: Anticoagulant therapy mainly with low molecular weight heparin appears to be associated with better prognosis in severe COVID-19 patients meeting SIC criteria or with markedly elevated D-dimer.
SIC = sepsis induced coagulopathy (essentially small blood clots developed when covid-19 triggers sepsis).
A high D-dimer test is a measure related to the likelihood of deep-vein thrombosis in the body.
Those patients with the most severe SIC or D-dimer levels showed a significantly lower mortality rate when treated with heparin than the patients not treated with heparin.
Bury council the latest to announce their schools WILL NOT be opening.
That's good thenSIC = sepsis induced coagulopathy (essentially small blood clots developed when covid-19 triggers sepsis).
A high D-dimer test is a measure related to the likelihood of deep-vein thrombosis in the body.
Those patients with the most severe SIC or D-dimer levels showed a significantly lower mortality rate when treated with heparin than the patients not treated with heparin.
SIC = sepsis induced coagulopathy (essentially small blood clots developed when covid-19 triggers sepsis).
A high D-dimer test is a measure related to the likelihood of deep-vein thrombosis in the body.
Those patients with the most severe SIC or D-dimer levels showed a significantly lower mortality rate when treated with heparin than the patients not treated with heparin.
Excellent, thanks. I know this is a simple sounding question, but is it safe to say then that your chances of surviving now if you got it are much better now than they were in March/April, in terms of quality of treatment?
it’s a bloody good question but not one any journalist will ask it at the press conference !
The paper primarily dealt with the improvement in mortality rates for the more severely ill covid-19 patients who had developed blood clotting problems so it's a help for those patients, it's not really fair just yet to widen the scope beyond the case-types in that paper.Excellent, thanks. I know this is a simple sounding question, but is it safe to say then that your chances of surviving now if you got it are much better now than they were in March/April, in terms of quality of treatment?