37-year-old patient in Bac Giang with severe prognosis, placed ECMO

After several times of oxygen breathing, intubation, the patient’s condition did not improve. Therefore, the medical team decided to order ECMO for this case on the afternoon of June 15.
On the afternoon of June 15, the medical team at the 101-bed Intensive Care Center (ICU) at Bac Giang Psychiatric Hospital placed ECMO (artificial cardiopulmonary bypass) for HTH patient (37 years old). Previously, patient H. was admitted to Bac Giang Lung Hospital on May 26, receiving oxygen but his condition did not improve. On May 28, Ms. H. received non-invasive oxygen (HFNC). On June 2, the patient was intubated with mechanical ventilation, osiris dialysis, and used antibiotics. At 8 pm on June 14, the female patient was transferred to the 101-bed Intensive Care Center and continued to receive mechanical ventilation, dialysis, and vasopressor. However, patients with very severe right heart failure, high doses of vasopressors, bilateral diffuse lung damage, did not respond to optimal medical treatment. Therefore, at 4 pm on June 15, the patient was assigned to conduct ECMO placement. As the person who directly treated this case, Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung, deputy head of the Department of Intensive Care and Anti-Poison (Danang Hospital), Head of the Da Nang medical delegation in Bac Giang hospital, said: With ECMO placement, the patient was able to stop the vasopressors and improve the oxygenation index. However, the prognosis remains severe because of damage to both the heart and lungs. In addition to the above case, on June 12, the 101-bed Intensive Care Center also booked ECMO for NTT patient, 67 years old. After getting a positive result for nCoV, the patient was admitted to Bac Giang Lung Hospital for treatment from June 3 with shortness of breath, cough, SpO2 85%, HFNC breathing and dialysis. At 12 o’clock on June 12, the patient was transferred to the 101-bed Intensive Care Center in a very serious condition, unresponsive to HFNC, so he was intubated and mechanically ventilated. However, the patient’s lungs were severely damaged and diffused on both sides, P/F