Abstract
Severe COVID-19 infection requiring oxygen support is reported to have high mortality. Chest Severity Score evaluated through CT scan has a predictive value about future outcomes in such cases. Score value ∼18 is predicted to have poor outcomes. We are presenting here a case of severe COVID-19 with all predictors suggestive of a bad prognosis including IL-6, D-Dimer, Ferritin and CRP in addition to 18/25 Chest Severity Score. Initially treated under ICU care at a tertiary care COVID hospital for about 14 days, the patient was intervened with Ayurveda on his own insistence seeing the unsatisfactory improvements. Ayurveda intervention for 19 days along with standard ICU care resulted in complete clinical recovery of the patient besides the correction of biomarker levels. Rapid clinical and biochemical correction in this severe COVID-19 case against all odds is highly significant and warrants an urgent search for possibility of instituting the integrative management strategies for all those treated in an allopathic facility. This case also advocates an early institution of Ayurveda interventions in COVID-19 in order to prevent deterioration leading to complications.
【저자키워드】 severe COVID-19, hypoxia, Chest severity score, Integrative care, 【초록키워드】 COVID-19, Biomarker, Prognosis, IL-6, hospital, CRP, Intervention, outcome, Ayurveda, COVID, clinical recovery, outcomes, Deterioration, COVID-19 infection, management, CT scan, Rapid, complications, predictor, Care, score, Predictive, ICU care, biochemical, Improvements, high mortality, oxygen support, Complete, Prevent, predicted, reported, the patient, addition, evaluated, treated, presenting, Initially, 【제목키워드】 severity, Case report, Ayurveda, Chest, complete recovery, Severe COVID-19 Infection, supported,