Pharmacological strategies used to manage symptoms of patients dying of COVID-19: A rapid systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 has tragically resulted in over 2.5 million deaths globally. Despite this, there is a lack of research on how to care for patients dying of COVID-19, specifically pharmacological management of symptoms.

Aim

The aim was to determine the dose ranges of pharmacological interventions commonly used to manage symptoms in adult patients dying of COVID-19, establish how effectiveness of these interventions was measured, and whether the pharmacological interventions were effective.

Design

This was a rapid systematic review with narrative synthesis of evidence, prospectively registered on PROSPERO (ID: CRD42020210892).

Data sources

We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL via the NICE Evidence Health Databases Advanced Search interface; medRxiv; the Cochra

SUBMITTER: Heath L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8189007 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature