A pregnant woman with pulmonary hypertension being sustained for weeks on a specialized life support mostly used for COVID-19 patients, all to hold off a necessary lung transplant long enough for a team to deliver her premature baby.
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Wanda McCarthy of Grand Falls says she is eligible for a double lung transplant but just can't find anyone to agree to be her support worker something she must have before even being put on the waiting list.
TORONTO Doctors have successfully completed the first double lung transplant in Canada for a man whose lungs were devastated by COVID-19. Tim Sauve, 61, became ill with COVID-19 in December when he noticed himself getting dizzy at home in Mississauga, Ont. In a matter of days he ended up in hospital, unable to breathe. âI was put on 100 per cent oxygen at that moment, and after that there was no turning back, they could not lower my oxygenâ Sauve told CTV Newsâ chief medical correspondent Avis Favaro. âAt that point it got very, very serious.â Sauve was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) at Toronto General Hospital in January with acute respiratory distress syndrome - or lung failure â caused by COVID-19. At that time, he was also put on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) which is a treatment that pumps the blood outside the body into an artificial lung to become oxygenated and then cycles it back into the patient, basica