Regarding "antibody cocktail therapy" that can be used for mildly ill patients with the new coronavirus, medical institutions in Osaka have begun efforts to expand the scope of administration to home caregivers and overnight caregivers who come to outpatient clinics. increase.
Antibody cocktail therapy was approved in Japan in July for patients with mild to moderate coronavirus disease.
The Kansai Medical University Medical Center in Moriguchi City, Osaka, has begun to use this remedy immediately after approval.
At the end of August, when the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare approved the administration of outpatient treatment only to medical institutions that can provide urgent inpatient treatment when the condition deteriorated, it was adopted as soon as possible.
The main target of outpatient care is home recuperators, and patients who are judged by health centers to be at risk of becoming seriously ill visit the hospital on foot or in their own cars.
Then, after being administered by intravenous drip for about 30 minutes, follow up and if there is no change in physical condition, have them return home as they are.
By the 8th, the hospital administered the drug to 106 infected people who visited the outpatient department, and many of them were able to prevent the worsening of their symptoms.
Furthermore, after the prefecture decided to provide antibody cocktail therapy to lodging patients, this hospital will be in charge of treatment at the hotel designated by the prefecture.
On the first day, the 7th, doctors and nurses went to the hotel with medicines.
At the hotel, we collect information on infected people who are at risk of becoming seriously ill from resident nurses, etc., and determine the necessity and administer it.
After administration, follow-up for about 1 hour is performed in the same way as inpatients, and infected patients continue to receive medical treatment afterwards.
According to the hospital, it was administered to 14 people in 2 days up to 8 days.
The hospital will now offer "antibody cocktail therapy" at the hotel five days a week.
Deputy hospital director Yasushi Nakamori, who is in charge of these efforts, was forced to continue medical treatment at home for a long period of time in the fourth wave when the medical care provision system of the new corona in Osaka faced a crisis of bankruptcy, and it became severe. I have seen many patients being transported from.
From that experience, I would like to manage to survive this fifth wave by increasing the means to connect patients to medical care as soon as possible and preventing the aggravation of patients.
Deputy Hospital Director Nakamori said, "It is important to increase the chances of intervention as soon as possible. It is natural that inpatients will not be aggravated, but how to relate to people who are receiving home medical treatment or hotel medical treatment is important. We also have sufficient know-how to fight infectious diseases with the treatment experience of the new corona for the past year and a half, so how to provide the necessary medical care to these people is the key to future response. It should be. "