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Title: First Arizona patient on ventilator survives COVID-19 with rare blood treatment
Source: [USA TODAY]
URL Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-ar ... ilator-survives-104531736.html
Published: Apr 15, 2020
Author: Alison Steinbach, Arizona Republic
Post Date: 2020-04-15 12:22:08 by Ada
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Views: 1643
Comments: 10

PHOENIX – A Phoenix man is the first in Arizona to survive COVID-19 through a rare form of treatment called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy.

Enes Dedic, 53, was on the brink of death with a ventilator until his doctors at HonorHealth used ECMO as a last resort. Dedic is among the first U.S. COVID-19 patients to survive the disease by using the treatment and is among around 10 worldwide.

ECMO works by helping oxygenate blood outside the body so blood doesn't need to transfer through damaged or filled lungs. Instead, tubes carry blood from the body to an external artificial lung that removes carbon dioxide and adds oxygen, at which point an artificial heart pumps the blood back into the body.

It's a last hope treatment, as the mortality rate on ECMO is around 40% – "extraordinarily high for almost any medical procedure" – according to Dedic's doctors.

After 10 days in a medical coma on ECMO, Dedic woke up responsive and soon was able to FaceTime his wife.

"I can't even express myself," his wife Olivera Dedic said. "I was jumping through the roof when I heard that they woke him up and he's doing better." Dr. Robert Riley, Olivera Dedic and Dr. Anselmo Garcia after the successful treatment of Olivera's husband Enes Dedic. Dr. Robert Riley, Olivera Dedic and Dr. Anselmo Garcia after the successful treatment of Olivera's husband Enes Dedic. Doctor used therapy as a last resort: 'ECMO or death for him'

After returning from travel overseas, Enes Dedic spent a few weeks at home in the Deer Valley area of Phoenix battling fevers, chills, aches and nausea.

He first checked into HonorHealth's Deer Valley Medical Center on March 15 and quickly deteriorated. He was intubated and transferred to the HonorHealth John C. Lincoln Medical Center in Phoenix for increased mechanical ventilation.

A team of doctors tried everything to save him, said Dr. Anselmo Garcia, a pulmonologist and critical care physician. Enes Dedic was treated with all the potential drugs used for COVID-19 including hydrochloroquine, azithromycin, Kaletra, Actemra, antibiotics and anti-inflammatories.

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

Basically, it's an artificial lung.

Pinguinite  posted on  2020-04-15   12:34:35 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Pinguinite (#1)

Pin, I'm glad to see you posting. I got a wee bit worried the other day when I saw a headline about bodies piling up (I think the number was 800) in Guayaquil.

Stay well and stay safe, our beloved 4um shepherd. :)

Esso  posted on  2020-04-15   12:55:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Esso (#2)

I'm doing fine. I'm no where near that city, which is at sea level making it very warm and humid. Lots of very poor people also. We're in lockdown though, curfew from 2 PM to 5 AM, for what good it does preventing the spread as plenty of people are out in the mornings. Elsewhere in the country, things are pretty much normal, so far as I know, apart from the lockdown. The virus is all over though, though in small numbers according to official count.

Problem is this lockdown can't go on forever. When people start starving, the lockdown ends by default. Gov here is also broke and the lockdown cuts off their flow of revenue.

But I'm doing okay. Got plenty of food saved up. Having baked chicken tonight.

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#5. To: Pinguinite (#3)

But I'm doing okay.

Glad to hear that.

Got plenty of food saved up.

This panic came towards the end of my once-every-three-month grocery run. The day before the Indiana lockdown (3-24-20) a gal-pal and I went to the grocery store to try to get some stuff, but the cupboard was bare. Looked like something you'd see in the old Soviet Union. Amazing.

I may have to go down into the dungeon and look through my 12+ y/o freeze dried survival stuff soon.

Strange New World.

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