Marvel: Patient with longest ICU stay discharged
SRINAGAR: A Covid-19 patient who remained on ventilator support for almost 37 days was finally discharged from SKIMS, Bemina after recovering from the deadly infection. The patient remained hospitalized for 47 days, hospital sources said.
“One patient who was very sick and remained admitted for 47 days besides receiving Inj. Remdesivir and Convalescent Plasma Therapy (CPT). The patient failed to recover on maximum oxygen therapy and was put on Ventilator and stayed in ICU for 37 days,” authorities said.
Notably, eight COVID-19 patients were discharged from SKIMS Bemina (JVC) after successful completion of treatment and testing negative before discharge.
The patients discharged include 07 patients admitted under the Department of Medicine in High Dependency Unit (HDU) ICU and one from Gynae and Obstetrics.
Among the discharged six patients had Severe COVID Pneumonia with Severe Respiratory Distress, and were put on High Flow Oxygen besides other COVID treatment including Inj. Remdesivir. These patients with COVID Pneumonia had associated co-morbidities like Hypertension, Hypothyroidism and Diabetes, which were also taken care of, they said.
Regarding the patient of Gynae and Obstetrics, officials said that she delivered normally and the patients were monitored on a day to day basis till their oxygen saturation remained 94 percent on room air and were discharged from HDU.
The authorities said that the recovery rate at present in the hospital is 90.88 percent and with 29 fatalities the mortality rate is 2.87 percent.
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