Two Covid-19 patients transported from the Algarve to Lisbon
O This weekend, the Intensive Medicine Department of Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte (CHULN) transported two Covid-19 patients on ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) from Algarve to Hospital de Santa Maria, in Lisbon.
In a statement sent to the Minute News, the National Health Service (SNS) recalls that CHULN has the capacity to hospitalize more than ten ECMO patients simultaneously in its Intensive Care Units and has rescued patients from North to South of the country since the beginning of the pandemic, within the scope of the regional and national response of its Reference Center in this area.
CHULN is the English hospital that has treated the most Covid-19 patients on ECMO since March 2020, according to the latest November 29 report from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (EuroElso) which collects data from hospitals across Europe.
The Intensive Medicine Service of CHULN has already admitted 83 Covid in ECMO patients, from different regions of the country, from North to South, thus constituting an important center of reference in supporting hospital activity in the country.
Across the Iberian Peninsula, only one hospital, the Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona, treated more patients (97) with this end-of-line technique. In Italy, the epicenter of Covid’s first wave in Europe, no hospital admitted more ECMO patients than CHULN and in France only one unit treated more patients with this technique at Hospital de Santa Maria.
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