EVALUATION OF PHARMACOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS FOR COVID 19 PATIENTS IN BAQIYATALLAH HOSPITAL AND THEIR OUTCOMES | ||||
Bulletin of Pharmaceutical Sciences Assiut University | ||||
Article 9, Volume 44, Issue 1, June 2021, Page 89-97 PDF (367.72 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/bfsa.2021.174134 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Hami Reza Ebrahimnegad1; Mahdi Mashhadi Akbar Boojar2; Abdol Majid Cheraghali2; Zeinab Shankayi3; Tahereh Mohammadzadeh4; Mohammad Hassan Mirasheh1; Mohammad Mahdi Poorhaji1; Mohammad Hosein Eidnezhad1; Maryam Shahriari1; Mohammad Mahdi Asadi1; Hassan Amanpoor1; Mohammad Nikpouraghdam5; Farideh Bahrami3 | ||||
1Students' Research Committee, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran | ||||
2Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran & Chemical Injuries Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran | ||||
3Neuroscience Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran & Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran | ||||
4Health and Nutrition Research Center, Baghiyatallah Medical Sciences University, Tehran, Iran | ||||
5Nephrology and Urology Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran | ||||
Abstract | ||||
Purpose: The propagation of the new coronavirus, COVID 19, is still a major priority for many countries around the world. Because of the lack of effective certain antiviral therapy for COVID 19. Special medicinal protocols are needed in medical centers to reduce the mortality rate. Methods: Due to constant change of national pharmacotherapy protocols for COVID-19 patients, this study compares the outcomes of three specific pharmacotherapy regimens (Table 1) and the combination of all 3 regimens for management of 614 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Baqiyatallah hospital in Tehran, this hospital became a referral centers for receiving COVID 19 patients in Iran. Results: The more reliable result of treatments belongs to regimen 3 which indicated 98.26% recovered patients and 1.15% mortality rate and the lowest period of hospitalization with 4.4±0.21 days’ duration. Conclusion: It seems that regimen 3 (with a special combination of antiviral and Azithromycin ant anti-inflammatory drugs) had the best result in improving patients with COVID 19 and this result has not conflict with the comorbidity status of patients. | ||||
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