Visakhapatnam: A two-month-old baby weighing 2.7 kilograms was successfully treated for a rare, and life-threatening heart condition, Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection, at KIMS Cuddles Hospital in Visakhapatnam. Dr. Nikhil Tenneti, Chief Neonatologist at KIMS Cuddles, along with Dr. R. Santosh Kumar, Chief Intensivist in Pediatric ICU, and their team immediately assessed the baby’s deteriorating condition and determined that he …
Survival chances of COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilation, whose lungs leak air, are usually next to zero, said Kumari Ranjana’s doctor New Delhi: A 47-year old woman, who was put on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation support for 28 days and ventilator for 21 days, beat all odds to defeat COVID-19, a private hospital that treated her claimed. Kumari Ranjana, a professor …
Safdarjung Hospital is the only government-run facility in Delhi to offer ECMO as the last resort treatment for Covid-19 patients with severely damaged lungs. The patients offered ECMO treatment at Safdarjung hospital were critical and died of other complications. The first one admitted last year died of a heart attack three days after being put on ECMO and the second …
ECMO 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 …
SP Balasubrahmanyam's health condition has deteriorated further and is extremely critical, read the hospital bulletin. The hospital statement read, "Thiru SP Balasubrahmanyam who had been admitted at MGM Healthcare on August 5th, remains on ECMO and other life support measures. His condition in the last 24 hours has deteriorated further warranting maximal life support and he is extremely critical. Here's …