Patients die in terrible agony! Dramatic warning from a Pancevo anesthesiologist

Milorad Bozic, Photo: Screen Printed

From the first day of the outbreak coronavirus pandemics The Chief of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at Pancevo General Hospital, Dr. Milorad Božić and his colleagues care for the most difficult patients. His working day is a daily struggle for the life of each patient, but also an inevitable encounter with death and the loss of the sick.

– When the patient comes to us, he is already in a serious condition, he struggles for each breath and due to the lack of oxygen his face is blue-black. You see the suffering, the fear in his eyes, the helplessness, to which no one, not even the doctor, can remain indifferent, no matter how skilled and professional he is, says Dr. Božić for the Serbian Telegraph.

The last moments and when someone’s life is extinguished, it is always difficult for a doctor, regardless of how many cases of this type he has had in his career.

– Die from the crown in the worst torments. However, even in such circumstances, we try to help, even when we are aware that there is no help. We try by all means to prolong life one more hour, one more minute. The fight for human life is dramatic, and then the body simply fails because the body can no longer fight disease. Unfortunately, more than half of the patients with corona disease who end up in the intensive care unit die, our interlocutor describes.

However, the medical work does not end there, as the family is informed that one of their loved ones has passed away.

– I had the opportunity to inform the family that the patient died from a crown. They said to me: “How do you think he died of a crown, so that it doesn’t exist?” People just don’t believe it, they think that only the elderly and the sick die from the crown, and that is not the case. Believe me, middle-aged people are dying in full force, young people with no prior health problems. Corona does not choose, it is a really dangerous disease, and even some of my acquaintances outside the hospital cannot understand that – notes Dr. Božić.

The intensive care unit, where he works, accommodates the most difficult patients, who cannot breathe on their own, so they need the support of machines, most of the time respirators. But even that is no guarantee that the patient will survive.

– These are always difficult patients, whoever gets to the ventilator is just a prolongation of the agony. It’s a tough fight, sometimes it seems that the patient came out, and then there is a sudden worsening and a fatal outcome, reveals this top expert from the Pančevo hospital.