D-18. The patient in room 172 has been fighting the Covid-19 for the last eighteen days. Intubated and ventilated, the man is 52 years old. Several probes gravitate around his naked body. His cheeks are pale, his eyelids yawn, his swollen hands are motionless. Everything seems extinct in him. Only his chest moves, under the impulse of the artificial respirator. At D-15, the resuscitators tried to free him from the machine. The latest analyzes indicated that the patient had regained enough strength to oxygenate himself. The family had been notified. But when he was extubated, the patient whistled, unable to breathe: edema had formed in his windpipe. We put him back to sleep and put the hose back on. “In the face of this disease, the fight for recovery is not a matter of sprinting. It’s a marathon “, recalls Jérôme Fichet, physician-resuscitator at the North Cardiological Center of Saint-Denis.
In this private clinic in Seine-Saint-Denis, 32 other patients
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