Synopsis Each year, there are over a million hospitalizations and deaths worldwide due to seasonal influenza or viral outbreaks. The management of patients with influenza is still not well defined, therefore, general practitioners face a lot of difficulties during mass outbreaks. This “Clinical Trial” discusses a research study from the Journal Of Antiviral Therapy, titled “A clinical trial of intravenous peramivir compared with oral oseltamivir for the treatment of seasonal influenza in hospitalized adults”.
Authors : Michael G Ison, et al Study in Brief Objective To compare two doses of IV Peramivir to oral Oseltamivir for adult patients hospitalized with seasonal influenza. Methods · Total no of patients: 137 · The hospitalized patients diagnosed with suspected acute influenza were randomly assigned their respective treatments. · A 5-day course of IV Peramivir 400 mg, oral…
