An intensivist on a learning frenzy. Caring for the critically ill using evidence-based medicine.
ADDENDUM 1/5/22: We have now been using dexamethasone for COVID-19 patients who require oxygen since summer of 2020. We have been mostly stuck on using the dose of 6mg per day in these patients simply because that's what the great authors of the RECOVERY trial group did. This isn't a dig at them, they did …
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This is a big impactful study looking at administering Dexamethasone to patients with ARDS. I'm happy it came out, really happy. To start off a big hat tip to my colleagues in España who put this together. ARDS sucks. It's a b-word to treat and patients spend a frustratingly long time to come off of …
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