{"id":77,"date":"2020-04-24T02:06:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T02:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/?p=77"},"modified":"2020-04-26T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T08:30:08","slug":"16-april-2020-chloroquine-study-of-high-dose-chloroquine-for-covid-19-stopped-early-due-to-fatal-arrhythmia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/16-april-2020-chloroquine-study-of-high-dose-chloroquine-for-covid-19-stopped-early-due-to-fatal-arrhythmia\/","title":{"rendered":"(16 April 2020) Chloroquine- Study of High-Dose Chloroquine for COVID-19 Stopped Early Due to fatal arrhythmia"},"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 id=\"page-title\" class=\"highwire-cite-title\">Preliminary safety results of a randomized, double-blinded, phase IIb clinical trial (CloroCovid-19 Study)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.04.07.20056424v2<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The researchers enrolled two groups of COVID-19 patients in a public hospital in Manaus; the high-dose group was assigned a total dose of 12 grams of chloroquine over 10 days, while the low-dose group took a total dose of 2.7 grams over 5 days. All participants also received the antibiotics ceftriaxone and azithromycin. After 11 patients died across both dosage groups, the team halted the high-dose group of the trial on day six, citing more heart rhythm problems in the high-dose group. Low Chloroquine&nbsp; dose group to complete the originally planned sample size.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary safety results of a randomized, double-blinded, phase IIb clinical trial (CloroCovid-19 Study) https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.04.07.20056424v2 The researchers enrolled two groups of COVID-19 patients in a public hospital in Manaus; the high-dose group was assigned a total dose of 12 grams of&hellip; <span class=\"read-more-span\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/16-april-2020-chloroquine-study-of-high-dose-chloroquine-for-covid-19-stopped-early-due-to-fatal-arrhythmia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(16 April 2020) Chloroquine- Study of High-Dose Chloroquine for COVID-19 Stopped Early Due to fatal arrhythmia&#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":[13,4],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}