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Pumped full of medicine in the ward: This is how Covid patients are kept alive - doctor appeals "Get the vaccination"

2022-01-05T08:08:20.413Z


Pumped full of medicine in the ward: This is how Covid patients are kept alive - doctor appeals "Get the vaccination" Created: 01/05/2022, 08:55 AM From: Juliane Gutmann Nurses perform timed breathing exercises on a coronavirus patient in the coronavirus intensive care unit at La Timone hospital in France. Intensive care patients have to be given a whole range of drugs. © Daniel Cole / dpa Any


Pumped full of medicine in the ward: This is how Covid patients are kept alive - doctor appeals "Get the vaccination"

Created: 01/05/2022, 08:55 AM

From: Juliane Gutmann

Nurses perform timed breathing exercises on a coronavirus patient in the coronavirus intensive care unit at La Timone hospital in France.

Intensive care patients have to be given a whole range of drugs.

© Daniel Cole / dpa

Anyone who becomes very seriously ill with corona has to be treated in an intensive care unit and often even ventilated there.

A whole range of drugs are used here.

Covid-19 is pure stress for the body - like any disease. However, in the case of a coronavirus infection, serious inflammatory reactions and other complications * can occur, which make hospital treatment necessary. In very severe cases, transfer to the intensive care unit is unavoidable. The British doctor David Windsor recently drew attention to how many drugs are used in these cases via Twitter. The appeal of the doctor, who works in an intensive care unit in Gloucester, UK: “All of these drugs are needed to care for ONE corona patient for ONE day in intensive care. Or just ONE vaccine? "

It ends with the hashtag “gettthejab”, in German: Get the vaccination.

The doctor wants to make it clear with the tweet that a corona vaccination enormously reduces the risk of a serious and life-threatening course of the disease *.

The need for treatment in intensive care units is also reduced considerably.

"On the one hand, the agents shown are medications that are absolutely necessary as standard therapy for ventilation," explains Oliver Witzke, Director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic at Essen University Medical Center, in an interview with the

Business Insider

.

These are usually painkillers, sedatives and blood thinners, and anti-inflammatory drugs may also be added.

And according to Witzke, nutrient preparations can also be seen in the photo.

"

In addition, there are various drugs that are typical for the treatment of Covid-19, such as dexamethasone

," continues the doctor.

It is a cortisone drug that can improve lung function.

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Virologist Christian Drosten also published the picture on his Twitter channel.

As the

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)

further informs, he and the current Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach referred to the possible side effects of the drugs shown in the picture against the background of the tweet.

The listed range of drugs for anesthesia, artificial nutrition, pain therapy and circulatory stabilization of ventilated Covid patients * is "realistic"

, as quoted by the

FAZ

intensive care physician Stefan Kluge.

(jg) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

Source: merkur

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