Since the appearance of the omicron variant, the speed of spread of the coronavirus has become one of the main issues with the virus. The Clínica Universidad de Navarra is the first hospital in the world to have already carried out a clinical trial with infected patients that would help reduce the spread of the virus.
The Clinic is carrying out to study with which it is intended remove the viral load that has accumulated in the nasal lining of a person infected with the coronavirus, as explained by the specialist in occupational medicine of the clinic of the University of Navarra Alejandro Fernández Montero. If this were achieved, the ability to contagion of patients infected with Covid19.
The device is owned by the Canadian company Ondine Biomedical Inc. It is used in already positive patients who are in the early stages of the disease and who have not required hospitalization.
Removing the virus reservoir could also shorten the recovery time and therefore the duration of confinements, which it would complement the current measures. Another positive point is that the virus cannot develop any type of resistance to treatment and is valid for all types of variants.
This method does not seek to cure patients who already have the infection. We try to stop the infected person from being a transmission agent To other people. That is why it is carried out in the initial stages, when the virus, according to experts, is most contagious.
The patients, with a positive diagnosis, who are part of the trial, receive three sessions of photodisinfection and then check the evolution of the viral load for two weeks. To confirm effectiveness, half of the participants receive the photodynamic treatment and the other half will receive a control intervention.
The completely painless disinfection process It has been used for over 10 years, mainly in Canada, as a mechanism for eliminating multidrug-resistant bacteria in patients who are going to have surgery to reduce postoperative infections.
First hospital to develop this type of study
It is the first hospital to develop a study of these characteristics where people will collaborate in testing the treatment of photodesinfection nasal to try to destroy the virus in the nose and to avoid passing it on to other people. Photo-disinfection is a painless process that has long been used in Canada to prevent a number of infections.
The trial tests the device from this Canadian company in patients who tested positive for PCR and did not require hospitalization. It is not a question of curing these patients, but of reducing the viral load, in order to reduce contagion. In this way, the “waves” that we are used to seeing with such an amount of positive for coronavirus.
advantage
The fact that the objective of this to study would suppose that some advantage, first of all an advantage public health because it would be reached decrease the contagion capacity and in consequence, incidence it would go down too. In addition, it would be advantageous for the economy and the labor sector because people would join their jobs sooner. Contact with other people would also be resumed earlier, which is why it has a social advantage.
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