Fewer patients who went on the ventilator died in the spring than now, infectologist János Szlávik said in the ATV Weekly Journal.

Coronavirus: the second wave

Half a year after the spring outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the second wave of the pandemic has arrived. The radical increase in the number of infected is forcing more and more countries to re-impose restrictions, although the world economy has not even recovered from the effects of the spring outbreak. According to the posters, the second wave also reached Hungary. Follow our news!

About 30 percent of ventilated patients died in the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic in the spring, a number that increased from 40 to 45 percent during the second wave; elderly and chronic patients are still at risk, but Down syndrome patients are also at risk, said János Szlávik, chief infectious disease specialist at South Pest Central Hospital, in the ATV Weekly Journal.

At South Pest Central Hospital, there are currently only coronavirus patients in the intensive care unit who need mechanical ventilation, he said, caring for patients on mechanical ventilation is a completely different task than caring for other hospitalized patients: People are kept in artificial coma and complications increase. it is.

Compared to ventilator-treated patients, 5 to 10 percent of patients in hospital wards die from the virus, but as the months go by, patients get older, the average age now approaching 50-60 years, he added.

According to János Slavik, not only now, but also in the spring, there were examples of different doctors being redirected from other departments to the centers, who were taught how to care for infectious patients. But he says that whoever graduates from medical school should be able to care for virtually any patient. Since intensive care requires special expertise, János Szlávik says that intensive care units are usually reassigned from other intensive care units.


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