Aspirin Reduces the Need for Mechanical Ventilation by Nearly Half For COVID-19 Patients

generalsurgerynews.com October 14, 2024

Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and taking aspirin were nearly half as likely to require mechanical ventilation as those with COVID-19 not taking the drug, according to a study of adult patients.

The patients were admitted to multiple hospitals in the United States between March 2020 and July 2020.

The study’s principal investigator, Jonathan Chow, MD, an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., said: “At the beginning of the pandemic, in March and April of 2020, my colleagues and I observed that all these COVID patients in the intensive care unit began to develop excess clot formation and complications related to blood clots and microclot formation throughout the body.”