Interesting to understand after seeing my mum on ecmo. She had VA ecmo and was kept completely sedated as her state was so fragile for almost a month. By some miracle she's pulled through and has made a complete recovery outside of needing physiotherapy for muscle waste and I know it wouldn't have happened without ecmo and some amazing medical staff
My nephew on it right now.. Legionnaires Bacterial Pneumonia.... I'll pray for your daughter.. please pray for my nephew... air conditioner installer and repair person for years... boo hoo...
My sister is recovering now from covid and pneumonia. She was critical, on ventilator and ECMO. They work well together, however not for prolonged periods. Glory be to God, the doctor's turned the ECMO off today and her O2 levels have remained stable. She's responding to her nurses and doctors. Still slightly sedated but doing better day by day. They paralyzed her body; coma last week so the machines could work for her. Now my sis is coming out of the woods, little by little; improving daily. Two weeks in hospital; one in ICU at one of the best hospitals in Atlanta. God is an awesome God. The prayers of the righteous availeth much. By grace and mercy she is alive and recovering; slowly but surely.
@@Jason-dq2nt Thank God for that 🙏 How is she doing now? How old is your sister? They always say that only old people die from the coronavirus but i'm sure thats a lie.
@@loramelody5940 that is a lie. A 5 yr old in Detroit just passed from it. She had or her complications however. My sister is 38. Glory to God. Grace and mercy! She's doing great! Weak but doing great. She's actually getting released to come home tomorrow. Thanking the almighty miracle working God. Almost a month in the hospital. Almost 2 weeks in ICU. She's rehabbing, up walking around, breathing treatments etc. Oxygen levels in range, glucose good, no organ damage etc. God, the nurses and doctor's who cared for my sis were amazing. They didn't give up on her when her body didn't react to the medicines. They told our family that she is a fighter! She battled it and kicked covid and pneumonia in the butt! The prayers of the righteous availeth much. Much love to the staff that are working 100 plus hrs weekly caring for all the covid virus patient's. Best hospital in Atlanta! Thanking God that my sis did well on the ECMO and ventilator working together. She did a big turn around. From critical, to getting released to come home tomorrow! God breathed on her. Blessings.
I lost my wife on 1st january. Her lungs were in very bad condition also she had sepsis in blood. After caesarean she got even worse. She was on ventilators. I was told at last condition they will use ecmo but doctors told me she died suddenly. Heart and breath stopped. Now i wondering if there would be any chance if doctors could use ecmo? Its very hard for me its killing me. Everyday i am thinking if there would be any chance or not? At least I thank God for my child. She is my only hope for life.
@@mariespi96 God bless you. It has passed 2 monthes but it still hurts as first time. Its not getting even a bit better. Everytime i look at my daughter i remember her and wish she would be here with us. Thank you for your support and God bless you and your family.
Yeah it's so sad to not know what COULD have happened... I lost my good friend last week, covid then ventilator 😖. I wish he hadn't gone to the hospital.
It's a simplified heart/lung machine...the technology is fairly old, it's been used since the late 50s/early 60s in cardiac bypass surgery...but what's new is the small size and the lower doses of blood thinners and reduced likelihood of bubbles in the blood...so there have been improvements in the technology, as well as environments where they are found. They are out of the OR now, and found in the ICU/ER and some EMS units can transport patients with these devices...quite fascinating...
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WHO official stated that China had high capacity to administer ECMO to COVID 19 patients which resulted in a lot of recoveries. In the U.S. ECMO is a luxury at limited hospitals, but hey we have the Space Force and we pay basketball players tens of millions of dollars to dribble a ball while our healthcare workers are dying from lack of basic gowns and respirators.
Jll Lihsa You might be correct. The more I read about the relationship between WHO director and Chinese government, I became suspicious that WHO was not being independent and was pushing pro-China narrative. The delay in calling a global pandemic, initial misinformation that the virus is not human to human transmitted or that’ it’s not airborne based on China’s data and not WHO analysis is troubling. There was a story today how a local funeral home in Wuhan received two shipments of 5,000 cremated remains each which would make China’s official death toll highly suspicious considering how wild the virus has spread and claiming lives in other countries who are under lockdown too.
This information is false. VV ecmo utilization has not demonstrated significant survival benefit in the Covid patient's. The WHO has not exaggerated this claim by the Chinese. Chinese data cannot be trusted at all. We have had limited success here in the US. That being said, there is still a great deal of promise in this technology.
U didn’t mention Pentagon and CIA un traceable spendings of billions. I guess if they cut 10 blion USD and invest in a respectful company for this machine not only US hospitals but they can provide it world wide
My daughter is doing research on how to better the ECMO. They are working hard every day to improve it. She has meetings with doctors all over the USA every week.
The mother of my child almost had to go on this when she gave birth and was worried cuz it was bad but luckily she made it through and I'm very thankful
ECMO was featured on CNN on July 1, 2020 in San Antonio Methodist Hospital - as an alternative to ventilator for Covid-19. The procedure is effective for raising blood oxygen levels, without the complications of damaged lungs.
I think that the problem is the staffing required to safely operate these machines. In the US and Canada, two nurses are required for every three patients in ICU units using ventilators. ECMO requires a team of highly specialized doctors to use. With the pandemic in full force and the limited number of medical professionals available ECMO machines may not be practical or even possible.
Justo Torres That’s what I was thinking too. It’s a great technology - perhaps during non pandemic times. If education on these systems, and staffing was available to use it then great. But right now I feel like we need to use what more are familiar with perhaps?
If there was ever a sever shortage could CPAP devices provide any assistance for people in need of respirators? I know it wouldn’t be perfect but would it help at all? Maybe with the settings tweaked or something. I mean if CoV-19 is going to cause extreme shortages maybe it would be worth looking at?
Help at all? This is 1000 times Better than a venilator for Covid patients. The covid sufferer has lungs full of fluid...so you can blow air in all day until the cows come home but the oxygenation is not happening! The air is not coming in contact with the blood at the aveoli level. Every time I hear them on TV talking about needing ventilators I want to shout at the screen that what they need are ECMO machines. You are right on in your realizing this is what we need now during covid outbreak! I am a hospital RN...btw
Nicki Snyder i dont understand why would CPAP be superior than a ventilator by 1000 times. The COVID initially causes interstitial pneumonitis, not a plug. If ventilators dont even work, CPAPs or a BiPAP which basically just provide a PEEP via a facial mask with limited capacity to deliver oxygen would do absolutely nothing.
@@zee1645 I never said CPAP would be superior.....I said ECMO is superior to a ventilator. It's what we need now for corona & no one is talking about them
@@shamimakhtar3085 still no improvement on his lungs as they are 90% damaged. We are getting worried. But his body is still holding strong and stable and highly reliant on ECMO now. We are praying for him everyday.
I am from India my right lungs 🫁 totalt. Destroy. Then doctor operate. Then. Doctor say. It will recover. Slowly slowly right. Open. Lungs surgery. But. I have. No. Money. To operate second operation pls 🙏 help me
I went to a park today and it was extremely crowded.. not a single soul was wearing masks except for me and my family.. it was really sad and disappointing 😞 So many people are dying dieing from covid yet parks like that still stay open
I need to use a video for a presentation of an open source project on the internet. I want to ask permission to use this video but I cannot find anywhere useful details about copyright owner and I cannot waste my life searching because there are ways more urgent things to do these days.
My brother was also on it 😭 he was died ..but then also doctors said he is alive ... and put him on vintilator for 4 days ...😭 that doctors are mad stupid hopeless ...😠 only becoz of fever he died the doctors dont know about there sickness
I was covid positive one months before. I know how much pain I took. Everybody please take all precautions as per guidelines. For corona virus .....go to helll
I just saw a news where 3 weeks of ECMO charged 7500000 rupees, so think carefully its just a machine its not lyk its taking 50lakhs of electric but..... This is what we are getting...doctors are making it expensive 🤧
If you are old and dont have a family you mind as well just wait for death at home, because these so called angels of life, sadistic assassins, choose who they want to treat. They dont treat everyone the same.
It is and it puts a lot of stress on the heart. My loved one is on it and they told me he may have heart failure from now on but a lot of people live many years with heart problems. He also got sepsis which is a common infection the longer your in the hospital. I'm still praying that his heart will recover 100% after ECMO is removed. 🙏🏻
ECMO is better than ventilation because the patient can be alert and awake and they won't be intubated as with the ventilator. There is another option on the horizon. Multi stem cell therapy for patients with ARDS Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, wich is the leading cause of Covid deaths. This stem cell therapy is still in clinical trials. I hope this can be admi administered in the future before they do either ventilation or ECMO.
It's their own blood being circulated but they do lose some blood when they're put on it and taken off. So, they will need a pint or two to replace what was lost during the process of putting it on and taking it off.
@Maria S. ECMO is more dangerous than ventilators. Brain bleeding is a huge risk & the longer a patient is on ECMO, the more the risks increase. Doctors won't keep someone on EMCO for more than a few weeks at a time because of the morality & risks involved. EMCO is a last option. Many CDH children I know have died from complications, like, sever brain damage & the one's that I know that survived wound up profoundly deaf because of ECMO treatment. It's just really stressful on the body to be hooked up to a machine pumping your blood like that. You are in a medically induced comma on ECMO. That would not be something you'd want to be awake for 😣
