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Although the state of health of the 30-year-old Cypriot psychologist who was bitten by an Indian cobra that he had in his apartment in Zografou, is stable with him remaining in repression in the ICU of Agios Savvas, the doctors are worried because they found a problem in his lung. The patient may have developed respiratory distress syndrome, which has alerted the team of doctors who are monitoring him, led by ICU director Georgia Kribeni.
“The patient is depressed, the doctors have woken him up two or three times, but now they don’t even test him because he is receiving a high oxygen mixture, which is administered in a special way following instructions from German centers specialized in similar cases,” he told protothema. gr the director of the Medical Service of the Agios Savvas Hospital, Theodoros Kormas. These are clinics located in Berlin and Hannover.
The 30-year-old initially had a problem with neurotoxicity from the venom, which paralyzed his muscles and caused him shortness of breath. So the doctors had to give him oxygen with the ventilator. In his misfortune, however, he was lucky because the Agios Savvas ICU has new technology respirators that are necessary to receive the right amount of air mixture, with the correct pressure and frequency, as defined by the instructions received from the doctors. doctors from the two clinics abroad. The 30-year-old receives oxygen in large quantities and is closely monitored by medical and nursing staff.
It should be noted that the administration of the antidote was completed on Saturday. Doses were administered initially every half hour and then every six hours to complete the procedure in 24 hours. The administration of the antidote can have effects on the health of the patient and, in fact, in Greece in the last 20 years many had died from the antidote and not from the poison in their body from the snake bite. It is also noted that the venom from the cobra bite, even if the patient makes a full recovery, can cause permanent neurological problems.
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