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Doctors at The Christ Hospital have gotten federal approval for a possible breakthrough to treat some of the most ill coronavirus patients.Ohio state leaders announced it was approved to go statewide Thursday.The Hoxworth Blood Center will work with hospitals in the area to identify potential donors and take plasma donations, then turn that plasma around for transfusions.They’re hoping it could be a key to a treatment.”This is going to be a lot of work, but it’s exciting,” Dr. Dean Keraiakes said.Keraiakes and The Christ Hospital got the Food and Drug Administration’s blessing to work on a new protocol for finding therapies for COVID-19 on Wednesday night, according to state leaders.”Our protocol, I think, is the leading edge in that it gives us an upstream shot at people in a time course where this therapy is likely to do more benefit if you get them earlier,” Keraiakes said.The protocol is a study to look at the benefits and outcomes of using COVID-19 convalescent plasma.Doctors said it is drawn from someone who has recovered from COVID-19 and had no symptoms for 28 days, and then given to someone currently sick.Lindsey Hayko, an ER nurse from The Christ Hospital, is the second recovered COVID-19 patient to donate her CCP for an emergency need in the Dayton, Ohio area.Keraiakes said The Christ Hospital protocol quickly tests for a certain protein in someone with a high risk of death.He believes if they can administer CCP to those patients earlier, antibodies could prevent the need for a ventilator.Keraiakes is working closely with Dr. David Oh at the Hoxworth Blood Center.”We’ve been setting up a process for us to be able to collect and then eventually test the products for antibodies and hopefully make it available as soon as possible,” Oh said.Oh said Greater Cincinnati hospitals using this protocol will identify possible donors.He said Hoxworth will take the donations at the blood centers.Oh also added that there are different protocols hospitals can choose, but the end goal is the same.”This has the promise of being effective. It certainly has not been shown to be effective yet at this point, but that’s why we’re interested in doing this in the structure of a clinical trial,” Oh said.The Hoxworth Blood Center hopes to start collecting next week.An exact timeline on when collections turn into transfusions isn’t clear yet.At the Community Blood Center in Dayton, officials said they will use the Mayo Clinic protocol and will start recruiting donors on Friday.The Hoxworth Blood Center has more information about COVID-19 convalescent plasma here.
CINCINNATI —
Doctors at The Christ Hospital have gotten federal approval for a possible breakthrough to treat some of the most ill coronavirus patients.
Ohio state leaders announced it was approved to go statewide Thursday.
The Hoxworth Blood Center will work with hospitals in the area to identify potential donors and take plasma donations, then turn that plasma around for transfusions.
They’re hoping it could be a key to a treatment.
“This is going to be a lot of work, but it’s exciting,” Dr. Dean Keraiakes said.
Keraiakes and The Christ Hospital got the Food and Drug Administration’s blessing to work on a new protocol for finding therapies for COVID-19 on Wednesday night, according to state leaders.
“Our protocol, I think, is the leading edge in that it gives us an upstream shot at people in a time course where this therapy is likely to do more benefit if you get them earlier,” Keraiakes said.
The protocol is a study to look at the benefits and outcomes of using COVID-19 convalescent plasma.
Doctors said it is drawn from someone who has recovered from COVID-19 and had no symptoms for 28 days, and then given to someone currently sick.
Lindsey Hayko, an ER nurse from The Christ Hospital, is the second recovered COVID-19 patient to donate her CCP for an emergency need in the Dayton, Ohio area.
Keraiakes said The Christ Hospital protocol quickly tests for a certain protein in someone with a high risk of death.
He believes if they can administer CCP to those patients earlier, antibodies could prevent the need for a ventilator.
Keraiakes is working closely with Dr. David Oh at the Hoxworth Blood Center.
“We’ve been setting up a process for us to be able to collect and then eventually test the products for antibodies and hopefully make it available as soon as possible,” Oh said.
Oh said Greater Cincinnati hospitals using this protocol will identify possible donors.
He said Hoxworth will take the donations at the blood centers.
Oh also added that there are different protocols hospitals can choose, but the end goal is the same.
“This has the promise of being effective. It certainly has not been shown to be effective yet at this point, but that’s why we’re interested in doing this in the structure of a clinical trial,” Oh said.
The Hoxworth Blood Center hopes to start collecting next week.
An exact timeline on when collections turn into transfusions isn’t clear yet.
At the Community Blood Center in Dayton, officials said they will use the Mayo Clinic protocol and will start recruiting donors on Friday.
The Hoxworth Blood Center has more information about COVID-19 convalescent plasma here.
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