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April 24, 2020A medical procedure doctors have used to treat novel diseases for a century has emerged as a focal point in the fight against Covid-19: convalescent plasma.Conva-what-now…?Convalescent plasma is the term used for plasma that is removed from the blood of a person who has recovered from a disease, then transfused into a patient…

PTI, Bengaluru, Apr 24 2020, 18:25 ist updated: Apr 24 2020, 18:28 ist Karnataka is likely to start Convalescent Plasma Therapy for COVID-19 patients, who are critical, from tomorrow, Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said here on on Friday. "We have already got approval for Convalescent Plasma Therapy. Follow latest updates on the COVID-19 pandemic…

Doctors say an experimental treatment using blood plasma does work and helped save the life of a coronavirus patient near death.The male patient had been on a ventilator at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was only getting worse.The hospital had just received its first batch of blood plasma from a recovered coronavirus…

Doctors at a Worcester hospital say they saved a coronavirus patient in the nick of time, thanks to an experimental treatment involving blood plasma.The vital signs of the COVID-19 patient, who was on a ventilator at UMass Memorial Medical Center, were getting terribly worse last Saturday."He was essentially approaching near maximal settings for the ventilator…

Image copyright PA The UK is to try to use the blood of coronavirus survivors to treat hospital patients ill with the disease. NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is asking people who have recovered from Covid-19 to donate their blood so they can assess the therapy in trials.The hope is that the antibodies they have…