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Therapeutic-dose heparin could reduce deaths from COVID-19
Publicado em 03 novembro 2021
Therapeutic doses of heparin may be effective at saving the lives of people with moderate COVID-19 admitted to hospital, according to researchers.
Currently, global guidelines recommend using prophylactic doses of heparin on admission of COVID patients. But a new study has found that therapeutic doses – which are four times greater than the global guidelines suggest – reduced the risk of patients dying by 78%.
The RAPID study involved 465 moderately-ill COVID patients at 28 [...]