{"id":660,"date":"2020-11-21T09:18:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T09:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/?p=660"},"modified":"2020-11-21T09:18:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T09:18:46","slug":"18-nov-2020-dexamethasone-methylprednisolone-both-found-to-be-equally-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/18-nov-2020-dexamethasone-methylprednisolone-both-found-to-be-equally-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"(18 Nov 2020) Dexamethasone &#038; methylprednisolone- both found to be equally effective"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">Comparison of efficacy of dexamethasone and methylprednisolone in moderate to severe covid 19 disease<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.amsu.2020.11.027<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The mean age of patients was 57.91 years in dexamethasone group and 54.86 years in methylprednisolone group. In dexamethasone group, there were 15 (42.8%) critically ill patients who were shifted to Intensive care unit (ICU) and seven (20%) of them needed ventilatory support, whereas in methylprednisolone group 22 (33.8%) had to be admitted in ICU with eight (12.3%) patient needing ventilator. As outcome measure, patients in both the groups showed marked improvement in temperature, oxygen requirement and C-reactive protein (CRP) on day 5. Only six (17.1%) patient died who received dexamethasone while 10 (15.3%) patients died among those receiving methylprednisolone. Dexamethasone and methylprednisolone both are equally effective in treating moderate to severe covid 19 disease.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comparison of efficacy of dexamethasone and methylprednisolone in moderate to severe covid 19 disease https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.amsu.2020.11.027 The mean age of patients was 57.91 years in dexamethasone group and 54.86 years in methylprednisolone group. In dexamethasone group, there were 15 (42.8%) critically&hellip; <span class=\"read-more-span\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/18-nov-2020-dexamethasone-methylprednisolone-both-found-to-be-equally-effective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(18 Nov 2020) Dexamethasone &#038; methylprednisolone- both found to be equally effective&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"genericon genericon-next\"><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow"},"categories":[81,4],"tags":[68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}