A 30-year-old anaesthetist and intensivist, who contracted COVID-19 on duty during the second wave and suffered acute lung damage, got a new lease of life after a team of doctors at Aster CMI Hospital performed a bilateral lung transplant. A team of critical care consultants, pulmonologists and lung transplant surgeons at Aster CMI Hospital in Bengaluru and KIMS Heart and …
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support is now being used in several hospitals to help severe COVID patients, who have acute pneumonia or lung damage, and in cases where ventilators are failing to maintain blood oxygen levels. Dr Suresh Rao, Co-Director of Heart and Lung Transplant at MGM Chennai, told News18.com that ECMO support is basically an artificial lung outside the patient’s …
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