Early in the initial surge of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, when there were still no known treatments, a young @MontefioreNYC and @EinsteinMed doctor, Shitij Arora, M.D., tried one last option in an effort to save his critically ill patient. Within hours, the patient was on the road to recovery. Find out how this bold step led Dr. Arora and his colleague, William Southern, M.D., M.S., to conduct a study to assess which patients might benefit from steroid treatment and which would not--based on a simple blood test to detect levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), which is a measure of inflammation.
Dr. Arora is an associate professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a hospitalist at Montefiore Health System. Dr. William Southern is a professor of medicine at Einstein and chief in the division of hospital medicine at Montefiore Health System.
This is an excerpt of the full video "A Simple Blood Test Can Help Assess Whether Steroids are Beneficial or Harmful for COVID-19 Patients": [ Ссылка ]
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