{"id":2065,"date":"2021-05-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:14:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:14:01","slug":"they-survived-covid-now-they-need-new-lungs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/2021\/05\/01\/they-survived-covid-now-they-need-new-lungs\/","title":{"rendered":"They Survived COVID. Now They Need New Lungs."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"2065\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>&#8220;BOSTON \u2014 He survived Covid-19, but his lungs were ravaged. After months of deep sedation, he is delirious, his muscles atrophied. And this 61-year-old still cannot breathe on his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was first intubated just after the winter holidays. Now, when he fully wakes, he will see that he is still attached to the ventilator by a tracheostomy tube in his neck. Slowly, he will come to learn that catheters the size of garden hoses are connecting his body to another device, a large extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine that has taken over the work of his failed lungs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gently, his doctors and family will tell him that his lungs are never going to recover, and that this machine is a bridge that will help keep him alive until he can receive a transplant. If it turns out that he is not a transplant candidate \u2014 if he cannot build up enough strength, or if he develops a catastrophic new infection or organ failure \u2014 the machine will eventually be turned off. And he will die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is not alone. Here in my hospital, we are caring for a new population of patients who have cleared the virus but are left with severe lung disease, trapped on ventilators and lung bypass machines.&#8221;<br><br>Read the full piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/29\/opinion\/covid-19-lung-transplants.html\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"2065\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading &#8220;BOSTON \u2014 He survived Covid-19, but his lungs were ravaged. After months of deep sedation, he is delirious, his muscles atrophied. 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