Kolkata: A 63-year-old Covid patient from Ranchi, who was flown to Kolkata in May in critical satay, is now ready to return home from a private city hospital after intense treatment, including 19 days of ECMO support and 42 days on ventilation.
The doctor said that Ganesh Prasad, a patient, could be a rare case that defeated a virus after a long battle on critical care support.
Prasad has been positively tested on April 30 and was accepted at a nursing home in Ranchi.
But his condition continued to deteriorate due to the intensity of the infection.
He wore Bipap support when he did not show signs of recovery in non-invasive ventilation (NIV).
Because conditions continue to deteriorate, it is inserted and placed on full ventilation.
Even when full ventilation failed to turn it back on, Prasad Rahul Kumar’s son contacted the ECMO team at Amri Hospital-Dhakuria and decided to take him to Kolkata.
The family immediately arranged the air ambulance to fly it to Kolkata on May 20, while ventilation.
On the plane to Kolkata, his condition deteriorated further and the oxygen level dropped to 50%.
The Amri medical team, led by ECMO Specialist Soham Majumdar and Prasad’s supervisor, transported him from Kolkata Airport with full ventilator support and immediately put ECMO support to the Dhakuria Hospital.
He remained in ECMO support for 19 days, until June 9, after that he returned to the support of the ventilator.
“Because he was first detected with Covid-19, he had been in a hospital for 64 days to 9 July, where 19 days had been in ECMO and 42 days in the ventilator,” said Majumdar.
Critical Care Consultants believe Ganesh Prasad is the only Covid patient throughout India to survive a long period of periods of critical care, including ECMO and full ventilation.
However, patient recovery is not free from bends and turns.
He suffered several episodes of seizures when in the ventilator, but Majumdar and Kaushik Mukherjee, the head of the Torax Cardio vascular operation, were able to manage challenges successfully.
The patient also underwent a tracheostomy to manage it on a prolonged ventilation.
The doctor gradually weaned him from ventilation on June 29.
Since then, the requirements of the oxygen have declined significantly and at this time, it is in the support of intermittent oxygen.
“The whole situation was only for us and it was a very difficult period,” said his son.
“Now he does it much better and can even talk to us, we are relieved and happy that we will take him home in one or two days,” said the son-in-law of Anamics.