At What Stage Of COVID-19 Is Plasma Therapy Recommended?
According to Dr Sandeep Budhiraja, Group Medical Director, Max Healthcare who did the first plasma therapy in India for a COVID patient back in April, the best stage to give plasma is ?moderate severity' - when the patient's requirement of oxygen increases. He says, 'The convalescent plasma therapy is not much effective when a patient is on a ventilator.'
Dr Suresh Kumar, Medical Director at LNJP (Lok Nayak) Hospital in Delhi says that plasma therapy benefits people more who:
are under 65 years of age
have only SARI (severe acute respiratory infections)
have acute respiratory failure because of COVID
have oxygen saturation is less than 90