Friday, April 2, 2010

Vietnam: 25 yo Hanoi: Battle for survival for pregnant women three times 'encounter' death


She and her husband on the Marine Institute, with grandmothers and boys more than 4 months


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The patient rooms are always three doctors on duty day and night, regularly monitor indicators, adjust all sorts of machines plugged into the patient. Not to mention large numbers of foreign health workers in disease prevention and ran off to get supplies ... Hundreds of health workers to join treatment cases.
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According to Associate Professor Nguyen Gia Binh, the patient was saved thanks very much on the method of continuous dialysis with special effect filters, a new method of Japan. Prior to the survival of patients, doctors decided to try this new approach to the internal adsorption toxin circulating in the blood, reducing the inflammatory reaction and damage organs.

He also said that this method is widely used in Japan, treatment of all infections, viral ... However, this is the first application on bird flu patients.

"A patient's survival will open a new direction in the treatment of patients with multiple organs failure due to infection of H5N1, H1N1 ... The death rate in patients with multiple organs failure is very large, up to 90 %, even 100%, "said Associate Professor Binh

However, the cost of this technique is also very large, each filter costs $ 3,500, but patients often use 3-5 per fruit. In the case of patients Cards, treatment costs up to $ 10,500, equivalent to 200 million.

However, patients will be completely free, as prescribed by the Ministry of Health. While the filter is located in specialized hospitals cooperation project with Japan, should also free.

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