This morning, 10.5, the Council for the Treatment of Patients Covid-19 (Ministry of Health), the main specialists in organ transplants in the main hospitals and transplant centers throughout the country, carried out a national consultation. Factors associated with lung transplantation to treat Covid-19 cases.
BN91 is very critical: condensation of both lungs, mechanical ventilation is no longer effective
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The patient considered for lung transplantation was a case of Covid-91 (British pilot, related to the Covid-19 outbreak at the Buddha bar, Ho Chi Minh City), under treatment at the City Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Chi Minh.
This is the most serious case among Covid-19 patients receiving treatment in Vietnam. The patient had a severe prognosis due to severe coagulation disorders, respiratory failure, dialysis, mechanical ventilation, ECMO intervention (artificial pulmonary heart).
More recently, 91 patients were still in a very serious condition, their lungs were frozen, with almost no recovery. The Covid-19 Patient Treatment Council has held ongoing consultations with experts in treatment regimens and is currently in the process of reviewing, evaluating, and preparing lung transplants for this patient.
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Leading Vietnamese experts consulted on the treatment, considering performing lung transplants for patient Covid-19, a British pilot.
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Associate Professor Luong Ngoc Khue, Director of the Medical Services Administration (Ministry of Health), Chief of the Treatment Subcommittee, Covid-19 National Steering Committee on Prevention and Combat, said that the evaluation of the patient’s condition 91 had the participation of leading experts. Lung transplant patients should be evaluated for medical factors: health status, laboratory parameters, especially immunological and biochemical indicators, etc. Patients will receive lung transplants if the factors are important. That fits, let’s do it.
The treatment subcommittee has assigned units: Viet Duc Friendship Hospital, T. Lung Hospital, Cho Ray Hospital, Military Hospital 103 to be primarily responsible for the experience in evaluating the factors to make Organ transplant decisions, as well as Coordination with agencies related to obtaining organs (lungs) for donation, if the patient is physically fit for a lung transplant.
” Vietnam is doing its best to treat patients 91. Organ transplants are the latest treatment in the hope of reclaiming patients’ lives when other methods are no longer available. Treating and saving patients’ lives is the physician’s awareness and responsibility, ” said associate professor Luong Ngoc Khue.
Remarkably, all costs of lung transplant treatment, if implemented, will be free.
