Artesunate for the treatment of severe malaria: A retrospective review of patients admitted to two tertiary hospital intensive care units in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Ratidzo Tadzimirwa Shahed Omar Jacqueline M Brown Ishmail S Kalla

Published in: Southern African journal of infectious diseases (2020)

In this retrospective two-centre study, IV artesunate was associated with a lower than predicted mortality in adult patients with severe malaria requiring ICU admission.

Keyphrases

south africa
intensive care unit
plasmodium falciparum
early onset
hiv positive
mechanical ventilation
emergency department
cardiovascular events
risk factors
type diabetes
coronary artery disease
acute respiratory distress syndrome