Croatian pulmonologist develops new method of rescuing patients with covidium: "We know who will end up on a respirator"

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Dr. Ivan копkopljanac (32), a pulmonologist from the Clinical Hospital Center Split, together with a team of colleagues developed a method for ultrasound examination of the lungs, which upon admission to the hospital can predict how covid-19 will develop in patients, writes the portal Net.hr

The Croatian pulmonologist developed a strategy for early detection of covid-19 with the help of ultrasound.

"I was assigned to Covid Hospital in November 2020, and since I have been doing lung ultrasound since the beginning of my specialization, I wanted to see how much we can do with the help of this method, which is unjustifiably neglected in the treatment of lung patients. "to help patients who come for treatment because of coyote." said the doctor about "Free Dalmatia", adding that X-rays often do not give a clear enough picture, and MSCT (chest scanner) can not be done in such a short time.

When, with the support of Assoc. dr. spec. Kresimir Dolic started to scan the lungs of the patients with ultrasound, he noticed that he could predict how the disease would develop.

The patients who would be admitted to the hospital and who had an ultrasound the same day were more or less in good clinical condition.

"There were a lot of patients who looked good 'at first' and we would never say their condition would get worse. People sat normally, had little need for oxygen, and there was no indication that their condition would deteriorate rapidly. "Even when we gave them an ultrasound, we saw that their condition could worsen, which was illogical, because according to the external examination and the findings, they were very good," said Dr. Skopljanac.

He also explained that such an early prognosis specifically helps patients. After completing the study, which lasted three months, the doctors knew even better how to deal with such situations.

Special attention to the risky

- Such patients were transferred in time to the wards that are closer to the intensive care units and somehow we knew how many respirators and devices with high flow of oxygen we might need. They were the main focus of our treatment because we knew they would get worse. We included 133 patients in the study, but we continued to perform ultrasound examinations on all other patients. Out of 133 patients, 17, unfortunately, died, 14 were on a respirator, and 14 patients ended up on a device for high oxygen flow, which is only a scale in front of the respirator - said Dr. Skopljanac.

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