jmaf2000 | 7 points
Doctors in Honduras reduced 50% Coronavirus death rate with corticoids, tocilizumab, anticoagulant, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.Great to know about google translation! Thanks. Here in the US everything requires a prescription. Even safe medicines. Not in Mexico. If you live or can travel to the border, you can cross into Mexico and buy it, it is legal to bring it back into US without a prescription. The problem right now is the very long lines to cross the border since it is only permitted essential travel. Going for personal medicines is considered essential travel.
[-] TrumpLyftAlles | 2 points | May 23 2020 14:51:08
These are drugs such as colchicine, anti-inflammatories, tocilizumab, ivermectin, anticoagulants and hydroxychloroquine,
The above is the only mention of ivermectin.
And although infections in the country continue to rise (3,100 cases and 151 deaths until this Wednesday), the government believes that the increase in the rate of recoveries (more than 11%) is linked to the implementation of a strategy made in Honduras that It combines medications and techniques to deal with the virus at an earlier stage.
Its objective is to prevent patients from requiring intensive care, especially worrying for a weak health system whose maximum capacity to care for patients in this area is only 150 among more than nine million inhabitants.
#Catracho method The Honduran doctor Miguel Sierra-Hoffman was the one who devised this strategy in Texas, United States.
He did so after observing how after the death in Europe of many patients with covid-19 there were inflammatory and hypercoagulation infections that could end in cases of thrombosis and that, in his opinion, demonstrated that a change in approach to treatment was necessary.
Catracho - as Hondurans are colloquially called - is the name chosen for this method whose name was an acrostic made up of the names (in English) of its main components.
These are drugs such as colchicine, anti-inflammatories, tocilizumab, ivermectin, anticoagulants and hydroxychloroquine, which is still under study by the World Health Organization (WHO) to officially determine if it is effective against the coronavirus and does not pose any risk. .
It also includes techniques such as administration of high-flow oxygen and pronation (putting the patient on his stomach) in order to avoid infections and the need to be intubated.
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"We didn't really change any medications, we just started giving them from the first day of admission. Instead of giving the steroids on day six or 12, when people were already drowning, we gave them at the beginning," Sierra-Hoffman explains to the BBC. World.
After applying it in an experimental group in the five hospitals near Victoria County where he works, the recovered people increased as those who needed intensive care decreased, so Catracho was administered to all patients.
That was when, alerted by the high lethality of that time in his native country, worked with a group of Honduran colleagues to further investigate the method Catracho that, today, and was implemented in three of the largest hospitals in San Pedro Sula.
#Results in Honduras
According to Óscar Dí a z , head of Intensive Care at the Honduran Social Security Institute (IHSS) in this city and part of the research group, the results after its launch are clear.
"In four weeks, we halved intensive care mortality at the IHSS and cut the average hospital stay from 16 days to about six or seven today," he tells BBC Mundo.
Evolution of cases from the application of the Catracho method. Data from the San Pedro Sula IHSS hospital: [From 62 to 7%, the mortality of patients hospitalized with covid-19 fell. ] [26 of 300 patients were admitted to the ICU during the first month of the method. ], [From 13 to 4 patients the mean number in the ICU decreased (all 4 without intubation). ], [10 days in a row without deaths (from April 23). ], Source: * Data obtained on May 21. The Catracho method has been applied in this hospital since the last week of March., Image: Burial of victim of covid-19 in Honduras.
According to the doctors, between the second and third day of admission a gradual improvement is already observed in most cases.
"They started to improve without getting to intensive care, and if they did, they were much fewer days than the first (patients). In mid-April there was a drop in mortality, it was impressive," the BBC's medical director tells BBC Mundo. IHSS at the national level, Bessy Alvarado, who does not doubt "based on evidence" that this evolution is a direct consequence of the Catracho method.
After observing the first results, the Honduran government's health authorities decided to accept Catracho as a clinical trial and to approve its execution.
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[-] jmaf2000 | 2 points | May 23 2020 15:27:46
Thanks for the translation. I don’t know why Mexico is not using the catracho system. Mexican death rate is way up. Almost 11%. Mexicans don’t know about ivermectin. At this moment, any person can enter a Mexican pharmacy and get human ivermectin without a prescription.
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[-] TrumpLyftAlles | 2 points | May 23 2020 15:34:54
Google did the translation. It's magical: Chrome just does it!
What are they using in Mexico? I'm (overly) focused on ivermectin, not following much else. 11% death rate? That's 11% of people contracting the virus dies? Ugh, that's terrible.
It's great that people can buy it over the counter. I'm in the US and my MD won't write a prescription. It's ridiculous be ivermectin is a lot safer than aspirin.
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