Awake Proning and High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) are the Game Changers in Covid Treatment that Help Cure Patients
Chennai: Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Vanagaram was one of the first hospitals in Chennai to step up and treat COVID patients in the private sector. An exclusive fever clinic at the hospital has treated over more than thousand patients . Apollo Speciality Hospitals Vangaram has saved many lives with HFNC and Awake Proning eliminating the need for ventilation. Many COVID patients are profoundly Hypoxemic with low oxygen saturation- a condition called “Silent / Happy Hypoxia”. They will be completely normal and comfortable with no breathing difficulty, however, their oxygen level will be deteriorating at a faster pace. This can be picked up only by pulse oximeter. These patients really do well with oxygen supplementation alone. With progression of the disease some of these patients with “Silent Hypoxia” become more hypoxic in spite of oxygen supplementation. This is where we have seen the results of “Awake Proning”. In any patient requiring more than 4 litres oxygen ...