that inspired the world to invest differently. it still does. what can you do with spy? a major health scare for madonna. the pop legend s manager released a statement saying that on saturday june 24th madonna developed a serious bacterial infection which led to a several-days stay in the icu. her health is improving, however, she is still under medical care. a full a source is saying she s out of the icu. the situation forcing madonna who is 64 years old to postpone her latest tour which was set to kick off next month, and joining me now is cnn medical analyst dr. jorge rodriguez. he is an internal medicine and
finally it did happen and we are all kind of surprised by it. committees will start taking a close look at the process. the design, was it proper? was the operations, the techniques, was all that platform double. then they will start refining it. i am assuming it s going to take quite a bit of time to get that taken care of. you know what? you could have all the certificates on the planet, a stamp of approval from the pope, that doesn t guarantee that you re going to have a safe trip to the bottom. it just the thing you want to do is minimize risk. there is always risk. minimize it. and the ocean, as many people have said to us, is an incredibly the deep sea incredibly unforgiving place. david gallo, thank you very much for joining us, as always. ahead for us, a major health scare for a pop legend, madonna. she developed a serious bacterial infection which sent her to the icu for a few days.
knee, even an artificial valve in your heart is, well, a playground for bacteria. they can just start reproducing there. so, the fact that she had, probably or maybe, a very disseminated bacterial infection, and the fact that she has an artificial hip raises the dangerous stakes, i think, considerably, in her case. it may have nothing to do with it because she is three years out, and usually the danger zone is two years. it may be what is going on. again, we don t know. that is a very interesting observation there. so, she had this 84 performance tour scheduled over the course of about six months across north america, europe, united kingdom. madonna is also 64 years old. that, i think, would be ambitious even under the most healthy of circumstances. after experiencing something like this, what do you think are the prospects for that tour?
viral specialist. dr. rodriguez, this was really stunning, probably to a lot of people. the icu is very serious, but the icu for several days, what does that tell you? what do you think happened here? well, i think, first of all, i heard reports as she had been intubated, which meant she had a tube in her mouth, to her lungs, breathing for her. so, that in and of itself is very serious. you just don t do that as a precautionary measure. that tells me that madonna had, probably, a very disseminated infection. it could have been a pneumonia, an infection of the lungs, which causes her not to be able to breathe. either when they called the paramedics, and i hope they did, or what you got to the emergency room, they immediately started breathing for her, and integrating her. that is sutton shuns because we know little. the fact she was in the icu, and we identify this as a bacterial infection, that leads
well, i think, again, we don t know everything. if they are mentioning it, it s not a subtle, little, you know, walking pneumonia. there s more serious things going on here. probably, it is a tour that may very well be canceled completely, especially if there is a serious infection. if this infection has gotten into the bones, gotten into the prosthetic hip, it may take months of continued antibiotics to completely get rid of it. so, we will know, hopefully, more, in the next few weeks, if she dares, you know, or wants to shared, not theirs to share it. obviously, we wish her well. this could be something very serious, and the most important thing, obviously, is her health. not her tour. all the exhaustion that comes with it, which would tend to make things worse. and we do certainly all wish her well. i mean, madonna is a major legend for so many people. dr. jorge rodriguez, thank you very much for sharing your expertise on all of that.