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E-Mail A large scale trial by Monash University has definitively found a drug commonly used during anaesthesia before surgery to prevent nausea and vomiting does not increase the risk of a surgical wound infection as once feared. The steroid drug, dexamethasone, is often given by anaesthetists during surgery. However, because of its effects on the immune system there has been growing concern that it may increase the risk of wound infections, particularly in vulnerable populations such as patients with diabetes. As a result, there has been a reluctance to use it, even though more than half of patients are at risk of experiencing nausea and vomiting after their surgery. The same drug has recently been shown to decrease the risk of death from COVID-19 in severely ill patients. ....
Advertisement Emergency rooms emptied, cancer screening fell, elective surgeries were delayed, prescriptions for mental health drugs grew and calls to crisis support lines soared as COVID-19 up-ended the lives of millions of Australians. These are just some of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, according to data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, which for the first time released a national snapshot of the nation s health and how it was affected by COVID-19. Elective surgery wait times increased, but fewer people went to emergency departments. Credit:iStock Every time we turn over a data stone, as it were, we find a new thing that was impacted indirectly or directly by COVID, Dr Adrian Webster, head of the institute s health systems group, said. ....