Well, the tx for HAPE is high positive pressure, the treatment for ARDS is to list barotrauma. Honestly, I think this is a distinction without difference. As for the hemolytic anemia component — I am not seeing that in my patients. It is part of the daily surveillance of any critically ill patient, but we are not seeing higher levels of non binding hemoglobin (met, or carboxylate) in which the redox number is changed to bind or not bind oxygen.
Will keep looking, but not seeing it....
a) different strains of the virus
b) Different stages in disease progression
c) Function of viral load
d) Predisposition (e.g. small sample sets which indicate type O blood is not as susceptible; data which show high A1C is a big risk factor; and the like)
Thanks gas_dr for the review!
Posting a link for an alternate antibiotic
(H/t null and void)
null and void wrote upthread:
“The problem appears to be the Azthromycin. There are other antibiotics that work just as well in people with cardiac issues.
Long Island doctor tries new twist on hydroxychloroquine for elderly COVID-19 patients
Doxycycline in this case, cipro is another candidate.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3831643/posts#1