Doctors at Intermountain Healthcare have drafted the first guidelines to treat vaping-related illnesses, after studying 60 patients — the largest number treated by any health care system in the nation, they said.
“We’ve been able to act as a system and really capture all the patients we’re seeing and gather all the clinical experiences together,” said Denitza Blagev, a pulmonologist and one of the authors of the guidelines and study of patient outcomes, published Friday in the medical journal The Lancet.
The findings will help doctors differentiate between treatments for severe and milder cases, and care for patients who may be suffering from multiple ailments, Blagev said.