Progress in Traditional Chinese and Weste rn Medicine Treatments and Nursing Care of Knee Osteoarthritis

This paper reviews the causes of knee osteoarthritis, traditional Chinese and Western medicine therapies and nursing research progress and indicates that traditional Chinese and Western medicine have gradually recognized the cause of knee osteoarthritis. Knee osteoarthritis has been treated with various treatments and nursing care planning, and the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine has constantly been improved. Nurses should instruct the discharged patient to correctly treat their disease, adopt the health education, and, via the establishment of a healthy lifestyle, insist on a functional exercise to relieve the pain, delay disease progression, and improve quality of life.

Retrospective analysis of aspirin's role in the severity of COVID-19 pneumonia

BACKGROUND Since December 2019,an outbreak of pneumonia caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2(SARS-CoV-2)has led to a life-threatening ongoing pandemic worldwide.A retrospective study by Chow et al showed aspirin use was associated with decreased intensive care unit(ICU)admissions in hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)patients.Recently,the RECOVERY TRIAL showed no associated reductions in the 28-d mortality or the progression to mechanical ventilation of such patients.With these conflicting findings,our study was aimed at evaluating the impact of daily aspirin intake on the outcome of COVID-19 patients.AIM To study was aimed at evaluating the impact of daily aspirin intake on the outcome of COVID-19 patients.METHODS This retrospective cohort study was conducted on 125 COVID-19 positive patients.Subgroup analysis to evaluate the association of demographics and comorbidities was undertaken.The impact of chronic aspirin use was assessed on the survival outcomes,need for mechanical ventilation,and progression to ICU.Variables were evaluated using the chi-square test and multinomial logistic regression analysis.RESULTS 125 patients were studied,30.40%were on daily aspirin,and 69.60%were not.Cross-tabulation of the clinical parameters showed that hypertension(P=0.004),hyperlipidemia(0.016),and diabetes mellitus(P=0.022)were significantly associated with aspirin intake.Regression analysis for progression to the ICU,need for mechanical ventilation and survival outcomes against daily aspirin intake showed no statistical significance.CONCLUSION Our study suggests that daily aspirin intake has no protective impact on COVID-19 illnessassociated survival outcomes,mechanical ventilation,or progression to ICU level of care.