The doctors of the health complex mount Sinai hospital (new York) came to the conclusion that blood-thinning drugs can save patients suffering COVID-19. It is reported by CNN.
The TV channel notes that new data will help to solve the problem, which shocked the doctors. blood clots throughout the body, which complicate the already difficult to treat the disease.
“Patients who received anticoagulants, felt better than those who did not take them” – said Dr. Valentin Fuster.
Fuster and his colleagues examined more than 2,700 patients treated in the complex of mount Sinai. Since March, some of these patients were given anticoagulants.
The result was that only 29 percent of patients on a ventilator who received the drugs died, compared with 63 percent of the dead who did not take anticoagulants.
The researchers have not found that blood-thinning medications too often lead to problems with bleeding (one of the risks associated with taking anticoagulants).
Fuster noted that different patients received different doses and different types of drugs.
As reported by “the Rambler”, informed the head of the Duma Committee on health protection, the doctor Dmitry Morozov said that one of the complications of coronavirus is the development of DIC.
DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulation) – abnormal process that forms clots in the blood vessels in combination with incoagulability blood, leading to massive bleeding.
