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The record patient in Argentina: he spent seven months hospitalized and four in a coma due to Covid

2021-09-09T20:06:35.545Z


Franco Rigo is from Berazategui. The doctors at Hospital El Cruce de Florencio Varela, who treated him, say that his was a miracle.


Malena revolt

09/09/2021 4:42 PM

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Updated 09/09/2021 4:42 PM

Franco Rigo

is 65 years old.

He lives in Berazategui, in the South of Greater Buenos Aires.

In January 2021 he was admitted with a picture of bronchitis.

After several negative swabs, doctors determined that he had coronavirus.

He suffered practically all the complications that could occur in a severe condition.

He was hospitalized for seven months, four of them in a coma, several times with worse than reserved prognoses.

He left.

His recovery is amazing and encouraging.

He began to feel unwell on January 9, with a body temperature of 37.8 degrees.

Days later, two swabs were performed in different laboratories, but

both were negative

.

Muscle aches were added to the fever, but no type of mediation was able to alleviate his situation.

Since January 20, when they were able to determine that he did indeed have Covid-19, Franco's picture took a few days to get worse.

After being transferred due to his complications, from the private clinic where the hospitalization began, to the

Hospital El Cruce de Florencio Varela,

due to low oxygen saturation the patient was intubated for an indefinite period of time.

"He was in a coma for four months, it

was a nightmare

. When he seemed to get better, the next day he got worse again," says Alejandra, Franco's wife.

The uncertainty lasted more than seven months, thus making him the Argentine patient who was hospitalized for the longest time for coronavirus.

Franco Rigo with his family, recovering after being hospitalized for seven months for coronavirus.

The man relied on the respirator and various machines and drugs to stabilize pressure and heart rate.

"The doctors did not give us much hope, but neither they nor we lowered our arms because he was alive and clinging to life," reveals his wife.

Among the

complications of his condition,

the doctors at the hospital highlight a compromise of kidney and heart function, and bacterial superinfections in his lungs.

In addition, the prolonged hospitalization in intensive care and the effects of drugs made him disoriented and unable to wake up, which generated immobility and damage to his muscular system.

At all times, the company of his family was essential for Franco Rigo.

The

Humanized Care

protocol

carried out by the El Cruce staff allowed them, with all the necessary security measures, to enter to visit their loved one hospitalized.

"This protocol allowed patients to have affective contact, something that the pandemic prevented but we consider it very important for recovery," indicates Beatriz Carballeira, clinical physician and coordinator of the Humanized Care project at the hospital.

Both Franco's wife and children visited him constantly, during the seven months of hospitalization.

"For five months we could only see him behind glass. We talked to him with tears, but always visualizing him on Sundays next to his grill, making a barbecue to share with the family," recalls Alejandra.

The first barbecue after the return of Franco Rigo to his home, in Berazategui.

The recovery of the patient after so long, both for the medical staff and for his family, continues to be unknown and

is considered almost a miracle

.

"There are things for which we do not have an explanation. The intensive care doctors believed that he was not going to overcome his long hospitalization, he was

running a great risk of losing his life,

" says Carballeira.

After 209 days in intensive care, the El Cruce staff decided to transfer the patient to intermediate therapy, without the need to use a respirator or any other device.

Only four days were needed for Franco, once again lucid, to return home and fully recover.

"Now he is happy with us, with a lot of kinesiology and cures but at home," says his wife, Alejandra.

The rehabilitation that he must carry out, according to the doctor Beatriz Carballeira, would last

between 6 and 12 months

.

"It seeks to restore all its mobility and functioning capabilities, it is something progressive but we know that it will recover," he assures.

The case of Franco, who at 65 managed to get ahead of a seven-month hospitalization, is hopeful and something strange for the doctors at El Cruce.

"He had all the resources for his health to recover, like all our patients. But we know that, even so, some do not manage to overcome these extremely serious situations," explains Carballeira.

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