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The Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, on the outskirts of Stockholm, can receive patients with severe covid from Europe, reports Swedish Radio Ekot.
“We have excess capacity, I would say. We can receive Swedish patients and at the same time help abroad, especially when we start to see a second wave in the UK, Spain, Italy and France,” says Lars Falk, manager on radio. of operations of the Ecmo center in Karolinska.
A new pandemic is recently completed in Karolinska and in addition to the ecmo machines (a kind of artificial lung that oxygenates the blood outside the body), it has access to jet planes to transport the seriously ill. In normal cases, Karolinska ecmo department helps other countries with patients. But during the pandemic, attention was focused only on patients in Sweden. Until now, when covid patients in Europe can be picked up for care in Sweden.
“And then of course we fly and put the patient in ecmo and then we can take the patient to Karolinska for care or to a hospital in Europe for additional care,” says Lars Falk.