58 days on the ventilator, connected to: Suddenly, a Corona begins to speak patient

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After 58 days on a ventilator, a 35-year-old woman who was suffering from Covid-19 has acquired a unit, the consciousness, and to speak in a surprisingly even begun. The “Sunday Times” reported. Still, the patient is no longer connected in Southampton General Hospital on the device, it needs to have but not mandatory. Their weaning from the ventilator should start but.

The senior physician for the intensive care of the hospital, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, said that the patient still have a long way to recovery, as well as a long rehabilitation in front of him. “She practically said no muscle strength – barely enough to Breathe,” the doctor of the “Sunday Times” and also explained why that is so. “If you connected to a respirator or in intensive care is to build the skeletal muscles with the time.” Other problems, like a weakened diaphragm, would then occur.

Corona-patient starts after 58 days on mechanical ventilation to speak suddenly

Gupta was surprised for a number of reasons, and thrilled that the woman could suddenly communicate. Suddenly she could speak, while she was still too weak to lift a Finger or write a file, reported doctor.

Because many studies assume a high mortality of up to 90 percent for Covid-19-patients in intensive care or ventilation, the progress of the patient, all the more remarkable.

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