Re: Romania: a young man suspected of H1N1 flu, in a coma in hospital in Timisoara
Re: Romania: a young man suspected of H1N1 flu, in a coma in hospital in Timisoara
Young man from Petrila with suspected of swine flu has received an artificial lung (ECMO)
?nărul 22 years from Petrila, who had reached a clinical suspicion of the Timisoara swine flu, has received a lung artificially. The patient was suffering from severe respiratory insufficiency, and operation performed for the first time national has been his only chance to life.
Late last week, the man was taken to the emergency Clinic of anesthesia and intensive care of County Hospital in Timisoara, the suspicion of swine flu. The young man had returned recently from England, and its state of health was not at all good.
He has been suspected of hepatitis and flu swine and walking between hospitals in petroşani and division of Infectious Diseases Hospital Vulcan but in the end must be taken in an ambulance to Timisoara.
Under strict medical supervision, the patient felt a still worse, the lungs have collapsed, so, for the first time ever in Romania, has been connected to a lung artificially.
Disease was suffering severe acute respiratory insufficiency, to which he could no longer artificial ventilation to ensure adequate oxygenation and to eliminate carbon dioxide.
'Through this new technique, patient's blood is passed through a device that gives the excess carbon dioxide oxygenation and blood flow.
The device is also called the 'lung artificially propagated' whereas the structure is like that of lung cells, suplinind lung function when it is compromised', it is noted in a press release advertising on Tuesday gave the Clinic of anesthesia and intensive care.
According to experts, this is a technique which can be brilliant whereas offers time for lung healing and the resumption of normal breaths.
http://citynews.ro/eveniment/tanaru...a-porcina-primit-un-plaman-artificial-1233774
