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Two seriously ill patients from Sibiu, diagnosed with COVID-19, arrived at a clinic in Germany, with planes paid for them, because the public hospitals where they were hospitalized, the Military Emergency Hospital and the County Emergency Clinical Hospital, did not. they made. they have ECMO, which stands for functional “artificial lung,” according to data provided by doctors, according to Agerpres.
The first patient transferred to Germany, by his family from Sibiu, was hospitalized with COVID-19 at the County Emergency Clinical Hospital, where there is recently an ECMO borrowed from the Polisano Medlife Clinic, but it still does not work, because some are needed more parts. It was because of this “artificial lung” that the 67-year-old man’s family requested a transfer to a clinic in Germany.
“It is the only device we have and (…) we have to give some more parts, consumables. I sent it there (not to the County Emergency Clinical Hospital) a week ago, they still haven’t put it into operation and when I asked them why, they said they were missing some consumable parts. (…) It is an artificial lung. We use it for open heart interventions. The device is functional, we use it even after they (County Hospital no.) no longer they need it, we withdraw it and continue to use it ”, the medical director of the Polisano Medlife Hospital in Sibiu, Dr. Paul Porr, told AGERPRES.
Former chief physician of Medical Section I at the Emergency County Clinical Hospital (SCJU) in Sibiu, Dr. Paul Porr said that the private hospital where he currently works gave SCJU this ECMO (artificial lung) just to help patients COVID-19.
Paul Porr has shown his willingness to send from the private hospital to the public medical personnel who use ECMO for patients who are going to operate. The private hospital provided SCJUs and oxygen concentrators for COVID-19 patients.
“We gave (ECMO no) a week ago, ten days ago, together with two oxygen concentrators, after that, on Wednesday, we delivered ten more oxygen concentrators, which we received from Medlife, they had urgently bought and on Thursday, yesterday, I gave ten more. So they (SCJU Sibiu no.) have 22 oxygen concentrators from us, that is, for 22 intensive care beds, “said Dr. Paul Porr.
ATI Sibiu’s chief physician, Mihai Sava, explained to Agerpres that there is a physician at the County Emergency Clinical Hospital who has experience and could work with this ECMO, that is, Dr. Gabriela Cozmanciuc, a vascular surgery physician, who he previously worked in France.
The first COVID-19 patient to go to Germany for ECMO is a 67-year-old man, in serious condition, transferred on October 17 from SCJU Sibiu. The second patient with COVID-19 who preferred transfer to Germany, also due to the artificial lung, is a man with COVID-19, admitted to ATI at the Sibiu Military Emergency Hospital.
Basically, this ECMO is a device that helps the lungs and the heart, if it is high-performance, like the ones used in the clinic in Germany where the two people from Sibiu were transferred with COVID-19.
