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On Thursday afternoon, Professor Vidas Pilvinis, director of the LSMU Kaunas Clinics Intensive Care Clinic, will tell more about the youngest patient who died of the COVID-19 disease.
Professor V. Pilvinis said: “Today it is difficult for me to speak, because I have to admit the fact that yesterday in our hospital a 27-year-old boy with COVID-19 pneumonitis, with severe respiratory failure, unfortunately passed away after prolonged treatment.” .
He fell ill on November 1
According to the professor, the patient fell ill on November 1. He was a young, athletic man with no comorbidities.
Pilvinis lives
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“The disease has the typical symptoms of the flu. The patient is young, has no concomitant pathologies, exercises, has his own hobbies. A man like us. Fever, generalized weakness, he went to the doctor immediately. The first PCR tests that were performed were negative during the acute period, “said the professor, adding that the symptoms of the disease only became more pronounced.
He was taken to Kaunas for resuscitation.
The man progressed to respiratory failure, leading doctors to suspect a COVID-19 infection, and his family members also had this infection. After 2 weeks, the patient was admitted to the hospital.
Santara Clinics Anesthesiology Pain Treatment and Intensive Care Center. In short, it is simply called the first resuscitation section.
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“As the severe failure of respiratory function progressed, our resuscitation vehicle went to the city, to the city of Marijampolė, for resuscitation. The patient underwent artificial pulmonary ventilation during transport and arrived at our hospital when we saw that the traditional methods of treatment, artificial pulmonary ventilation, medication were ineffective, we immediately decided on another method ”, said the professor.
According to prof. V. pilvinis, a man underwent extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. For some time, vital human functions have been ensured by pulmonary ventilation and other means. However, even this did not save the man, the condition only worsened, respiratory failure increased.
Later, other infectious complications contributed.
“The patient was always monitored and treated until yesterday. However, respiratory failure progressed and the tissues, cells and meshes of body function. Iro lung tissue, a leak developed. The actions, which were aimed at saving the patient’s life, were unsuccessful, “the doctor said sensitively on Thursday.
A deadly and very insidious disease
As prof. V. pilvinis, this disease is very insidious and at first the symptoms may be the same as those of the flu. The same thing happened to this patient.
“Regardless of the age of the patient, the disease can be threatening, lethal. Even for young and middle-aged patients, ”said the professor.
The doctor was also asked about the current condition of relatives who, as previously reported, were also facing a severe course of the disease.
“It just came to our knowledge then. Their condition, medically, is good, they have already gotten sick and recovered from the disease. They are suffering losses,” said V. Pilvinis.
The man could not exercise his lungs
Santara Clinics Anesthesiology Pain Treatment and Intensive Care Center. In short, it is simply called the first resuscitation section.
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The doctor explained how the man died.
“We treat a person to die when heart and breathing activity disappears. Hypoxia occurs the moment the heart stops. Our cells are alive only because the blood provides them with nutrients and oxygen. In the case of our patient, he died because oxygen could not enter the bloodstream.
It is perhaps easier to understand that there was both gaseous oxygen in arterial and venous blood. The man simply couldn’t use his lung tissue. I was in hypoxia, ”said the doctor.
According to V. Pilvinis, a decision was made on Thursday to further increase the number of resuscitation beds to help all people with COVID-19. However, according to the doctor, even transport to the hospital can be dangerous for some patients.
According to the doctor, the average age of patients at resuscitation clinics in Kaunas is currently 54 to 64 years.
Directed to the public
The professor addressed the public during a press conference.
Pilvinis lives
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“I would very much like to address you, the people who are currently at work, on the street, in the store. I would like to address and ask a rhetorical question: who is our enemy today? League?
It seems to me that our enemy today is in man. Viruses happen, it is a natural phenomenon. But what are we doing today? Did not our egoism, desires, mercantile needs prevail, or did it not happen that today I need it and I am leaving? I need more, I need now.
The holidays are coming, people will want to see, reach out, hug. But we are responsible for ourselves and for the neighbor, the father, the mother, the son, the daughter. For a neighbor. And what do we do? There are people who deny, do not love.
I don’t know if you need to live like this. I think the enemy is in our behavior. We doctors can help you, but we can’t be around constantly when you live your life. I ask everyone to reconsider, to stop, to realize that the situation is very tense right now, ”said V. Pilvinis sensitively.
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