Steroid Injection Therapy Does Not Compromise COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy, New Guideline Suggests
Source: Pain Medicine News
The American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (ASPN) issued a new set of recommendations to guide clinicians in the safe and appropriate use of steroid injections for pain management in patients who are receiving the COVID-19 vaccine (J Pain Res 2021;14:623-629).
“The central question that we wanted to deduce and answer is whether a local steroid injection might potentially reduce the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine, which relies upon a robust and potent immune response that primes the body to fight the virus,” lead author Krishnan Chakravarthy, MD, PhD, an assistant clinical professor of anesthesiology at the University of California, San Diego, told Pain Medicine News.
