In Moscow over the past day recovered a record number of infected COVID-19 — 8 033 person is almost three times more than the number of cases per day. Despite the positive trend, the situation in hospitals and clinics is still tense. About how fighting for the lives of the patients doctors sechenovskiy University, in an exclusive interview to TV channel “Russia 1” said the head of the Department for the treatment of coronavirus infection Sergei Efetov.
Sergei Konstantinovich, Hello! What is the situation in your hospital now? How many patients with coronavirus and a lot of heavy?
— Our clinic was redeveloped at the beginning of April. Currently it is about 75 percent loaded patients with viral pneumonia. Predominantly, 95 percent, is a pneumonia caused by a coronavirus. When we first opened, the hospital had no free space. With severe patients was a little less.
— Severe patients, as you say, more. What is the reason?
We passed a difficult way of strict isolation. Someone got tired of it a long stay in the four walls, people took to the streets. How will this affect the incidence of whether the jump is whether the growth, we still today do not know.
— What treatments do you use? What, in your opinion, the most effective?
— the Methods of treatment we use, is aimed at monitoring of patient’s condition, prevent complications that can cause COVID-19 in the body.
the Doctors said that trying to delay the moment of connection to a ventilator. So is this really the case?
— the Situation with artificial ventilation of the lungs is extremely difficult. Patients are difficult to cure and way out of the difficult condition. For this was invented and used all non-invasive methods inentelechie lungs, when trying to delay the moment when it will be clear that without the ventilator, the patient can not cope.
— Planned hospitalization in April-may had to be postponed because of the pandemic. Now with your non-emergency patients? In Moscow in fact has developed an interim standard routine medical care. Of particular interest to patients with cancer.
— We send our patients who need cancer care, to other institutions. Now do the planned surgery is postponed, but we are forming a waiting queue, which will not affect the health of our patients.
Thank you for the interview!
