EVMS PROTOCOL updated Discuss with your doctor, save a life

The American Spectator ^ | 2 may 2020 | Parry

[Devils_Tower]

The EVMS protocol has been updated.

The article is a good description of background.

Make sure you know the latest best treatment to avoid NYC fiasco.

[Devils_Tower]

Short link evms.edu/covidcare

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for posting the update.

I was feeling really terrible yesterday and thought I might have it. Talked to the ER doc and he said there was nothing they could give for the disease if you have it. I mentioned the EVMS protocol (having followed its evolution and having read it closely). He didn’t respond to that and didn’t even seem to know about it. I was shocked and very disappointed.

Are all the docs are running ragged and don’t have a lot of time to keep up with the latest info?

I wonder how you can evaluate the protocols that various hospitals or docs at hospitals use. You sure don’t want to get admitted to a hospital that isn’t up-to-date on the latest info and is equipped with the right medications.

[heartwood]

I have seen the EVMS protocol before. What I’d like to see and haven’t found is a write up of the results using it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The author's closing paragraphs are very important...

I also urge you to have copies available to take with you to the hospital if, God forbid, you become infected. Keep in mind that the consortium strongly recommends that the administration of the hydroxychloroquine, Methylprednisolone, or whatever corticosteroid should promptly begin in the emergency room and continue throughout hospitalization. As noted by the consortium, there is resistance to using its anti-inflammatory strategy, and, for that reason, you must be ready to be your own best patient advocate.

So, as we used to say in the Boy Scouts, “Be prepared” by having printed copies of the consortium’s documents readily available. The life you save may be your own.

The idea of having their protocol printed out and with you had occurred to me a couple weeks ago. I've printed a couple copies - one to leave at home and one to take with me to the hospital if I need to go in.

[Steve_Seattle]

From the article:

"It is our collective opinion that the historically high levels of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 is due to a single factor: the widespread and inappropriate reluctance amongst intensivists [critical care physicians] to employ anti-inflammatory and anticoagulant treatments [blood thinners], including corticosteroid therapy early in the course of a patient’s hospitalization. It is essential to recognize that it is not the virus that is killing the patient, rather it is the patient’s overactive immune system."

This may explain why the US has a uniquely long plateau of high CV deaths compared to European nations who have followed social-distancing protocols similar to our own. Most European nations saw a steady rise in deaths, a brief plateau of about a week, followed by a long, relatively steady decline. We have seen a long plateau - more than a month now - and NO steady decline.

Because the media made the HCQ regimen "controversial" simply because of Trump's endorsement, and because of waffling and mixed-messages emanating from the FDA, Fauci, and the CDC, American doctors have been both less willing to use HCQ, and less willing to use it EARLY.

It seems that TDS is now actually leading to the literal deaths of thousands of people.

[ConjunctionJunction]

What are your thoughts on the Eastern Virginia Medical School's COVID-19 protocol?

https://www.evms.edu/covid-19/medical_information_resources/#covidcare

[05 Mustang GT Rocks]

Also, all corticosteroids besides being anti-inflammatory are also immunosuppressants. In San Antonio VA transplant patients there aren’t any sick with the COVID and all of them are immunosuppressed.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Excellent assessment.