Japan Medical Association New “Corners' Meeting” for new corona established April 19 at 19:15
The Japan Medical Association has newly established a "Meeting of Experts" regarding the new coronavirus, and from the standpoint of clinical medicine that actually treats patients, measures in a wide range of fields such as prevention of infection, treatment of severely ill patients, and virus testing methods are taken. Will be recommended.
The Japan Medical Association held a press conference on the 18th, and announced that it has newly established a conference of experts within the medical association.
The experts' meeting is composed of 16 doctors, and from the standpoint of clinical medicine that actually treats patients, it covers a wide range of topics such as prevention of infection, treatment of severely ill patients, testing methods for viruses, and research on therapeutic drugs. It means that we will propose measures based on the data accumulated in.
“The government meeting of experts focuses on epidemiology and public health, but this meeting is mainly for evidence-based recommendations from a clinical point of view,” said Yokokura, chairman of the Japan Medical Association. We will respond with a sense of speed so that we can notify the doctor quickly. "
Ryozo Nagai, President of Jichi Medical University, who was appointed as the chair of the conference, said, `` Up until now, it was a measure that mainly focused on high-risk people, but the number of people whose infection route is unknown increases, and it is necessary to broaden the target a little more and prevent it. I would like to gather information from the site, make recommendations, and appeal to society. "