There is a lot of talk about measuring blood oxygen saturation at home using pulse oximeters to give early warning of COVID-19 symptoms and to allow the early presentation at hospital. If testing at home, you need to know what is normal and ideally the testing should be part of a management plan and under the supervision of a healthcare professional…
The solidarity trial has been launched to help develop treatments for Covid-19. The trial will result in current medicines with other licensed indications being used “off label “….
The Isle of Wight will be trialling the new Covid-19 App, often the Island is used as a testbed as they have a defined set of variables which can be controlled. The Island has 140,000 people and this is a good size to carry out a trial. Sixty per cent of the islanders will have to download the app to make the trial effective…
Covid-19 does appear to attack the kidneys and affect the renal tubules and podocytes…
CPAP machines normally used for sleep apnoea are being mass-produced by Mercedes F1 in collaboration with University College London. The CPAP machines have been approved by the MHRA after clinical trials….
