As part of his treatment for COVID-19, President Donald Trump began taking dexamethasone, a steroid that can help patients with severe forms of the disease.
and make the illness worse, which has prompted questions about Trump’s COVID-19 prognosis and treatment.
In general, the steroid is recommended for hospitalized patients who need supplemental oxygen or mechanical ventilation, according tofrom the National Institutes of Health. Trump received oxygen for about an hour Friday after his oxygen levels dropped briefly, his doctors said Sunday, and his oxygen saturation dipped to 93%, which prompted them to give a dose of dexamethasone. At the time of the briefing, Trump’s blood oxygen level was 98%.
“We decided that in this case, the potential benefits early on in the course probably outweighed the risks,” Cmdr. Sean Conley, DO, the White House doctor, said during the briefing.about dexamethasone use in hospitalized COVID-19 patients showed that the drug lowered the chance of death for those who had supplemental oxygen or mechanical ventilation but not among those who didn’t need respiratory support.
In particular, deaths were about a third lower for those who took dexamethasone while on mechanical ventilation and about a fifth lower for those who took the drug while receiving oxygen. The benefits also seemed to be clearer for patients who were treated more than 7 days after“However, there was no evidence that dexamethasone provided any benefit among patients who were not receiving respiratory support,” the authors wrote in. “The results were consistent with possible harm in this subgroup.
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