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Coronavirus steroid treatment data boosts confidence of Australian doctors treating critically ill patients – ABC News
New data from clinical trials is adding weight to recommendations Australian intensive care doctors use steroids to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients.
When the first critically ill COVID-19 patients started arriving in Australian hospitals, intensive care doctors suspected steroids could be an effective treatment.
Key points:
- New clinical trial data provides further evidence corticosteroid treatments reduce death rates of critically ill COVID-19 patients
- The treatments are already being used in Australia for patients who are severely ill from COVID-19
- National clinical guidelines for corticosteroid treatments will be …
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