A dying coronavirus patient in the USA was brought to life with a new method. The 53-year-old man managed to defeat the coronavirus, thanks to a machine called ECMO, where oxygen is delivered directly into the blood.
Doctors
from all over the world continue to try different methods for the treatment of people
suffering from coronavirus. A coronavirus patient, who is about to die with a
new method tried recently in the USA, was brought back to life.
A man named Enes Dedic, from Phoenix,
Arizona, USA, started to feel no unwell after he went to his mother’s funeral in
Bosnia and returned to the USA. Having trouble breathing on March 15, the man
was hospitalized.
The coronavirus test of the man who had breathing difficulties was positive. After the test was positive, Dedic was connected to the respirator. Although the 53-year-old man remained attached to the breathing apparatus for two days, things started to go bad.
The breathing apparatus was not sufficient to breathe
53-year-old Enes Dedic was taken to John C.
Lincoln Medical Center when his breathing apparatus was not enough. When the breathing apparatus wasn't enough for Dedic, the doctors at the medical center decided to try another method.
Dr. Robert Riley and Dr. Anselmo Garcia
decided to use a machine called ECMO to save Dedic. The ECMO machine draws
blood from the patient’s body and supplies oxygen directly to the blood. Oxygen
supplied blood is reintroduced to the patient through the machine.
Enes Dedic, 53, whose condition came of the
death limit with his respirator, was in a coma for the first 10 days he was
attached to the ECMO machine. Dedic managed to wake up from the coma on the 11th
day.
Enes Dedic, who managed to get rid of
coronavirus using ECMO, was the first person in the world to survive
coronavirus with ECMO method. The 53-year-old man can now breathe on his own
from Monday and the coronavirus tests are negative.
Dr. Riley and Dr. Anselmo, who are also the
directors of the ECMO program, said that ECMO is used in very difficult
situations. “When nothing else is left to help save the patient, we use this
method,” the doctors said.
The two doctors, who are the director of the ECMO program, now train healthcare workers at other ECMO centers in Arizona after succeeding with the ECMO machine against coronavirus.
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