This is what the COVID department looks like: The chance of survival is 50 to 50! It’s not just old people who end up on the devices – Topky.sk

The men of the law had already been to the covid ward at the Bratislava hospital in Antolská. This is where the most difficult cases lie, in which the chance of survival is 50 to 50. “Patients do not come to us from the street. They are patients who have already gotten worse at home, they have been admitted to the hospital for a reprofilized internal medicine department. she needs it, so we intubate the patient and that’s how he gets here, to covid ARO, “ said the head of anesthesiology Jakub Hložník.

However, coronavirus infections occupy many more beds in the hospital. They have other patients on ARE. “Up in the internal department, it’s already full, so there’s a full capacity of 20 patients,” Hložník added. Therefore, they also open a rehabilitation department for covid patients.

The doctor noted that patients who ended up with artificial lung ventilation had previously been in the internal medicine department where they received treatment. This can take the form of oxygen therapy, high-flow oxygen therapy or infusion. However, not everyone will benefit from treatment. “The disease is simply unpredictable and we don’t know how the patient will react to the virus.” stated.

“We also had a young patient here, born in 1979, and ended up with artificial lung ventilation. Fortunately, he improved and was able to go on internal medicine. He was not vaccinated and said he believed the misinformation on the Internet.” said Hložník.

He often swept off the table the often-used argument that old people in particular end up in a bad state. He also stressed that even the old patients are the same people as the young and the patients all need to be treated. “The argument that they are old people does not stand here.” he clearly referred.

He also refuted the hoax that vaccinated patients were treated differently from unvaccinated ones. “We treat everyone the same,” he said. Treatment is similar for patients, but of course individualized, as each patient will bring with them other diseases that need to be taken into account.