LAGATAR24 NETWORK
Ranchi, Feb.18: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation helped save a 50-yr-old man suffering from Covid-19 in the third wave.
This is for the first time any patient was saved in Jharkhand by this oxygenation process and the success story came from Bhagwan Mahavir Medica Super Specialty Hospital, which introduced the service about two and half years baCK with the installation of the first ECMO machine at its health institution in Jharkhand.
Medical director of Medica, Dr Vijay Mishra, confirmed the achievement saying that ‘the patient, who was expected to die within 5 to 6 hrs returned hale and hearty after 15 days of treatment in the hospital on Thursday evening.’
“He was on 100 percent ventilation support when he was admitted. ECMO helped save him,” Dr Mishra said.
The patient had come from Jamshedpur. His name was Mukesh Kumar Thakur (50).
“He was presented in an intubated state from outside with Gcs-e1vtm1, HR-100/min, Bp-100/80(norad-5ml/hr), and Spo2-65% on 100% fio2 Abg-7.191/pco2-45.4/po2-40.6/hco3-15.3/lac-2.7 on February 3. He remained on ecmo for eight days before he was discharged,” a hospital insider said.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is given with the help of an ECMO machine. The ECMO machine is similar to the heart-lung by-pass machine used in open-heart surgery. It pumps and oxygenates a patient’s blood outside the body, allowing the heart and lungs to rest. When you are connected to an ECMO, blood flows through tubing to an artificial lung in the machine that adds oxygen and takes out carbon dioxide; then the blood is warmed to body temperature and pumped back into your body.
