58-Year-Old Patient Conquered Post COVID Respiratory Failure Through ECMO At Gleneagles Global Health City
Team of medical experts saved a patient who had severe lung infection post COVID 19 Infection from the Brink of Death Chennai, September 17th, 2020: Gleneagles Global Health City, Chennai, the largest facility of Gleneagles Global Hospitals Group, has successfully treated a 58 years old patient from Chennai who was detected with post-COVID Respiratory failure. This is the first successful post-COVID respiratory failure treatment through ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) in Tamil Nadu. aided in the incredible recovery of this patient to a stable condition. First-ever successful ECMO aided COVID treatment in Tamil Nadu performed on a 58-year-old gentleman by a group of medical experts from Gleneagles Global Health City, saving him from the brink of death. The patient was healthy and without any co-morbidities till July 2020. The patient developed fever and breathing difficulty in the month of July’20 and underwent treatment for severe COVID in a neighbourhood hospita...