11-year-old boy suffering from MISC, related to Covid, recovers in Kerala
New Indian ExpressECMO pumps and oxygenates a patient's blood outside the body, allowing the heart and lungs to rest. When a patient is connected to an ECMO, blood flows through tubing into an artificial lung in the machine that adds oxygen and takes out carbon dioxide; then the blood is warmed to body temperature and pumped back into the body. “The intensive care, immunomodulant therapy and the addition of ECMO increases treatment cost significantly, but the doctors knew that this offered Adhik the best chance for recovery. Amrita Hospital also gave a letter to the family for submission to the Employees State Insurance Corporation," said Dr Mahesh K, paediatric cardiologist at the hospital. Most children who are infected with the COVID-19 virus develop only a mild illness; but in children who go on to develop MIS-C due to the infection, organs like the heart, lungs, blood vessels, kidneys and brain become severely inflamed.
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