The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of Advance Care Planning (ACP) and presents opportunities to expand access to its benefits, in the context of increased public awareness of how health can suddenly and unexpectedly deteriorate.
Advance Care Planning (ACP) is a process that helps people "at any age or stage of health to understand and share their personal values, life goals, and preferences regarding future medical care," with the goal of to help "ensure that people receive medical ...
IHCAI – DIME. Información seleccionada sobre intervenciones para el tratamiento de COVID-19
Statins are lipid-lowering therapeutics with favorable anti-inflammatory profiles and have been proposed as an adjunct therapy for COVID-19. However, statins may increase the risk of SARS-CoV-2 viral entry by inducing ACE2 expression.
Usage of statins compared to non-statin use is significantly associated with a lower risk of death and a less inflammatory response during the entire hospitalisation period.
Some people may experience stress, anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this Cochrane systematic review, the authors searched for randomized trials that compared computer-based versus in-person interventions for preventing and reducing stress in workers.They included 2 studies (total: 159 participants).The comparative effects of computer-based versus in-person interventions for stress management in workers are uncertain.
More studies should be done to determine the effect that interferon-β has on hospitalized patients for COVID-19. The existing studies are made from therapeutic schemes of great variation among them, which could explain the heterogeneity of the results. Other items that should be dated are the effect in mild patients who do not require hospitalization and the pharmacokinetic and dynamic aspects of interferon -β or inhaled or sublingual route.
Despite this, it should be noted that early ...
There is currently no evidence of the benefits and risks of patients using antimicrobial mouthwashes or nasal sprays to protect workers performing aerosol-generating procedures in patients without known or suspected COVID-19 infection.
Further studies are to be performed to shed light on the measures.