"On day 7, the second day of mechanical ventilation, at the request of the family when the patient develops ARDS, she is started on a continuous intravenous infusion of high-dose vitamin C (11 g /24 hours). Two days later, her clinical condition gradually begins to improve, and the clinicians discontinue supportive treatment with norepinephrine."
https://www.medpagetoday.com/casestudies/infectiousdisease/87976
Summary of case
- 74 year old patient admitted to ER after 2 days of cough
- Doctors give antibiotics and oxygen on Day 1 as well as test for COVID.
- Doctors receive positive COVID test result on Day 3
Doctors give hydroxychloroquine, 1 gram oral vitamin c/ 200 mg zinc, and azithromycin for the next 4 days with no success - Day 6: Patient develops ARDS, septic shock, and ventilated
- Day 7: Family requests IVC
- Doctors approve and give IVC with oral zinc
- Patient removed from ventilator after 3 days of IV Vitamin C therapy
- Patient given IV C for 3 more days
- Day 16: Patient in stable condition and placed in quarantine
IVC has strong evidence for treating ARDS and sepsis.
The research done with regards to this was done on non-coronavirus patients.
ARDS and sepsis does show up with Coronavirus patients.
Can IVC, therefore, be potentially useful for hospitalized Coronavirus patients experiencing ARDS/sepsis?
Definitely.
According to the CDC, nearly 70% of hospitalized Coronavirus patients develop ARDS!
The family had to personally request IVC. Fortunately, the doctors complied with their request. This may not be the case in other situations. Patients families should not really have to ask for it. It should be standard treatment of care.
Although the doctors finished strong, they delayed treatment for various reasons. COVID treatment was started on Day 3 of hospitalization. They probably should have started their regimen on Day 1 while waiting for the results to return.