While local hospital leaders aren’t sounding the alarm about capacity concerns, we heard a similar story from leaders at St. Luke’s and Houston Methodist: hospital beds and emergency rooms are regularly filling up as both health systems continue to manage coronavirus patients on top of all the folks finally heading.
Sioux Falls man gets double lung transplant after COVID
April 24, 2021 GMT
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) A Sioux Falls man has undergone a double lung transplant after suffering complications from COVID-19.
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reported Friday that 42-year-old Nathan Foote suffered severe pneumonia after contracting the disease in October. He suffered severe scarring in his lungs. Doctors said he get a double transplant or die in hospice care.
He was placed on the transplant list in February at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis. He was offered two potential matches but both fell through because of changes in the donors’ health.
KIMS Doctors Perform Highest COVID Lung Transplants in Asia by Angela Mohan on April 20, 2021 at 11:36 AM
Some of the severe COVID-19 patients require advanced respiratory support ECMO for respiratory failure.
Patients will be usually from States likes Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Delhi in the North; Kerala, Karnataka in the South; Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan in the West; and West Bengal, Odisha in East; along with Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh in Central India.
Commenting on the record performance, Dr. Sandeep Attawar, Program Director and Chair, Thoracic Organ Transplant program, KIMS Hospitals said, The team has performed 12 double lung transplants for patients with respiratory failures caused due to COVID-19 and 38 heart, double lung & combined heart double lung transplants for patients suffering from advanced cardio respiratory failure since September 2020.
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