coronavirus.The two small studies, published back-to-back this week in Critical Care Explorations, focus on identifying ways to predict the severity of illness and on understanding and treating serious blood clots.“If we know ahead of time that someone’s going to get dreadfully ill and we think we have a variety of things that might help, we may implement them much, much earlier,” lead researcher Dr.
Douglas Fraser told Global News.“We (also) want to have really frank, transparent talks with families and with patients. ‘What are your wishes?
How aggressive do you want us to be, particularly knowing some of this information?'”The findings still need to be validated with larger groups of patients, explains Fraser.