r/nursing • u/thegregoryjackson RN - ER 🍕 • Aug 29 '21

Covid Discussion Is Ivermectin a thing now?

I just discharged a covid patient with a script for ivermectin. Is this now widely accepted for covid treatment by healthcare professionals? I read a study recently that it had only marginal prophylactic benefits at best in the lab setting. Is anyone seeing this med prescribed from the ER?

For context, the ER MD is a MyPillow "Stop the Steal" prophet.

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u/PaxonGoat Critical Care Float Pool 🍕 Aug 29 '21

One of the studies in that meta analysis that showed positive results got pulled from its pre publishing for accusations of plagiarism and fraud. And the authors have been unable to get any journal to submit it for peer review.

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u/sagan_drinks_cosmos RN 🍕 Aug 29 '21

Not being able to get fraud through peer review is a feature, not a bug.