
Journal Jam 17 – Steroids for CAP and COVID Pneumonia
Emergency Medicine Cases
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Is There a Good Quality Study?
Many studies that get included don't necessarily look at length of stay. They, in fact, focus more on time to clinical stability. There's so many confounding variables that some of these measures are really hard to nail down and say whether they 're actually meaningful or not. We have a slightly better paper from a methologica standpoint coming up next. This is a tory's 20 15. So its multi centre, its double blind, its plecibo controlled. And this time they compared metho prenislon. It gave zero point five milligrams per kilogram iv every 12 hours for five days. Its, again, adult patients with severe pneumonia. Mortality was
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