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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
My wife asked me about ECMO today. I found out a friend of my wife's coworker/boss/friend is intubated in the ICU with COVID. She is 38 and has a husband and seven children. Apparently she was bad enough that they told her husband last week to come say goodbye, but she is still here. They are putting her on ECMO. For those that don't know, it is basically heart/lung bypass like what is used during open heart surgery. It is like a dialysis machine, except it is for the heart and lungs instead of the kidneys. Looks like the rate of mortality for ECMO for the use of ARDS/COVID for her age is around 42%, which isn't great.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/756993 |
She sadly died today. Survived by her husband and seven kids. Apparently one of them is 2-3 weeks old, so that sucks too.