Steroids, possible treatment for H1N1 flu According to critical care physicians, more funding is urgently needed to study the effects of H1N1 flu in critically ill patients.

A study was made by medical ICU doctors from Canadian hospitals involving the sickest influenza sufferers. Results of the study were published in a major American Journal last October. The study was considered as groundbreaking although it was done without federal funding.

The study aims to determine why a small number of healthy individuals are made so ill by H1N1. It also aims to discover new methods of treatment or new lines of drugs, which could help treat H1N1 flu.

Randomized controlled studies examined steroids and cholesterol-lowering drug such as statin to determine if they would be able to combat the H1N1 effects and significantly improve the survival rates of patients.

Researchers studied the individual effects of corticosteroids and statin, as well as the combined effects of the two drugs.

According to Dr. John Marshall, chairperson of the Canadian Critical care Trials Group, studies are being organized in the United States, Canada and France.

The researchers are trying to gather adequate information and positive results as fast as possible. Physicians would not want to experience the same situation as with SARS.  Before clinical trials were approved, the disease disappeared.

From Metro News Canada:

Can cheap and readily available treatments like steroids and cholesterol-lowering statin drugs help save the sickest of H1N1 patients? New efforts by researchers in Canada, the United States and France could help answer this pressing question.




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