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Mangaluru, Jun 12: KMC Hospital, here, completed the treatment of a patient suffering from severe COVID pneumonia.
Raghuveer, a 62-year-old-male, presented with complaints of fever of six days duration, cough with expectoration and breathlessness for two days. He was admitted into the hospital on April 29.
Speaking about the case, Dr Basavaprabhu from Internal Medicine, KMC Hospital, said, “When he was admitted into casualty, he had a respiratory rate of close to 45, heart rate of around 120, and saturation at room air was around 72 – 75. We did a COVID test and the report came out to be positive. The CT scan report showed a CT score of 22/25. He was suffering from severe COVID pneumonia and was shifted into ICU. He was also diabetic and hypertensive with uncontrolled sugars. We started NRBM with 10 litres of oxygen, Remdesivir, steroids, and heparin. For the next two to three days his oxygen requirements kept going up. The patient was changed to non-invasive ventilation but he was not able to maintain the saturation so he was intubated on May 2. Throughout his treatment, he had fluctuations in blood pressure and variations in saturation. But with the efforts of our intensive care team and flu team, we were able to extubate him on May 15 and we could shift him out of the ICU.”
He further added, “Subsequently, the Covid report came negative and we shifted the patient to the non-Covid ward and his physiotherapy treatment was continued, especially the respiratory physiotherapy. In the next ten days, he gradually recovered and was able to maintain around 95% to 96% saturation even with 1-2 litres of oxygen. The family decided to continue the treatment with home oxygen and physiotherapy and he was discharged in the last week of May. He was under our constant monitoring since then and the patient is doing well, maintaining saturation of 94-95% at room air at home.
Speaking about the same, Dr Anand Venugopal, medical superintendent, KMC Hospital, Mangaluru said, “I am really happy to say that Raghaveer is doing perfectly fine and is recovering at a good rate. I would like to congratulate the team of doctors and the staff for taking utmost care of the patient and making sure he comes back to being healthy as soon as possible. I would also like to commend the support and care provided by the patient’s family members to make sure that he is back to normal soon. I would once again urge everyone to make sure that they don’t step out unless it's absolutely necessary in which case, wearing a mask, social distancing, and regular sanitization is a must and inevitable. I would also like to request all the eligible people to come forward and get themselves vaccinated.”
About Manipal Hospitals:
As a pioneer in healthcare, Manipal Hospitals is among the top five healthcare providers in India serving over three million patients annually. Its focus is to develop an affordable, high-quality healthcare framework through its multispecialty and tertiary care delivery spectrum and further extend it to homecare. With 11 tertiary/quaternary care facilities and four secondary care hospitals spread across India and abroad, Manipal Hospitals today operates and manages about 6,000 beds across 15 hospitals. As the transaction with Columbia Asia consummates, Manipal Hospitals would be the second-largest hospital network with over 7,300 beds, 27 hospitals, more than 10,000 employees, and over 4,000 doctors.