Hyderabad: The Wail of ambulance sirens more often.
Increasingly busy hospital room, and Buzzier.
With the number of hospitalizations seen a surge cities, doctors re-use for patient care Covid remdesivir-19, is seriously ill.
During the second wave of the pandemic, RemDesivir used widely for the treatment of Covid-19 with people scrambling to get their drugs.
However, in April 2021, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) guidelines issued to stop the irrational use and prescription of emergency medicine.
Now, with more patients admitted in the hospital and ICU beds occupied, the doctor uses remdesivir for those suffering from the symptoms persist as high fever and cough for more than five days.
“Most patients with decreased levels of saturation below 95%, high fever, patches of pneumonia in a CT scan is affected by a variant of the delta.
In such a case, RemDesivir needed for five to seven days, depending on the patient’s condition.
In fact, in Omicron, almost not three days of remdesivir needed, “said Dr.
Gopi Krishna Yedlapati, consultant intervention Pulmonologist at Yashoda Hospitals, Secunderabad.
Directive ICMR, Off Label Medicine can be used in an emergency with moderate to severe disease in someone who is within 10 days after the onset.
“There are not many drugs in our hands to treat patients Covid-19 is seriously ill.
We started RemdIvisir in patients with hypoxia.
Depending on the sign of inflammation them, we also initiated steroid and then tapering the dose according to the condition of the patient,” said Dr.
K Prashanth Kumar, consulting physician, hospital sunlight.
Although ICMR recommend the drug only for emergency use, some hospitals in the city take place by recent studies have food and drug administration the US government in which he has expanded the use of remdesivir even for adults and children who are not hospitalized aged next 12 years weighing at least 40 kg, with an increase Covid infection.