The doctors of a hospital in Bucharest are talking to Romanians about the role of oxygen in treating the infection generated by COVID, all with the idea of bringing to people's attention how well they must protect themselves in order not to end up in an ATI ward in hospitals.
"A doctor's message: "Our everyday oxygen...
The human species is dependent on oxygen. If the lungs were not able to bring the necessary oxygen into the blood, due to the various diseases that can affect them - including Covid-19 - the body would die.
In the COVID wards of the Marius Nasta Institute of Pneumophthisiology, patients very often end up in hospital with severe lung damage evidenced by frightening oxygen saturations: 70%, 60%, even 50%, this means that less than half of the red blood cells that arrive in the lung I find this gas to be able to take it and take it to the brain, heart...
The treatment is a priority for these patients, according to the protocols in force, and in the first place, the medicine needed from the first moment in COVID is OXYGEN, which is administered at a huge flow to allow the saturation to increase to an acceptable level for the functioning of the vital organs, which have key role in the survival of the body to the crisis generated by the virus.
The experience of the pandemic has shown us that the required oxygen flow can be very high, up to 60 liters per minute! And unfortunately, some patients continue to get worse with all the treatment available at the moment, sometimes requiring invasive, intense and difficult to tolerate means that allow oxygen to reach the vital organs... and I'm sure many of you have heard these days the words: non-invasive ventilation or intubation or mechanical ventilation.
Oxygen therapy does NOT burn the lungs, but is the key to sustaining life in the hope of a favorable evolution of the lesions induced by the viral infection.”
Assoc. Univ. Dr. Irina Strâmbu, Coordinator of the COVID Pavilion, Marius Nasta Institute.”
