Talking. He accomplished lots of talking.
From the article that I linked in
#744:
Quote:
|
[I]ncreasingly, physicians are trying other measures first. One is having patients lie in different positions — including on their stomachs — to allow different parts of the lung to aerate better.
|
Some doctors moving away from ventilators for virus patients
A lot happens in three days.
This was on the news a couple of days ago:
Quote:
A Phoenix man is the first in Arizona to survive COVID-19 through a rare form of treatment called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy.
Enes Dedic, 53, was on the brink of death with a ventilator until his doctors at HonorHealth used ECMO as a last resort. Dedic is among the first U.S. COVID-19 patients to survive the disease by using the treatment and is among around 10 worldwide.
ECMO works by helping oxygenate blood outside the body so blood doesn't need to transfer through damaged or filled lungs. Instead, tubes carry blood from the body to an external artificial lung that removes carbon dioxide and adds oxygen, at which point an artificial heart pumps the blood back into the body.
|
"It was either ECMO or death for him:" 1st Arizona patient survives COVID-19 with rare blood treatment