March 10 (UPI) —<\/span> Patients with severe COVID-19 treated with blood oxygenation therapy may see significant lung recovery and return to normal lives with “meaningful” long-term health outcomes, a study published Thursday by the Annals of Thoracic Surgery found.<\/p>\n Among 30 patients treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, 28 survived their disease and 27 were discharged home or to a rehabilitation facility to continue recovery, the data showed.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n None of those who recovered left the hospital needing a ventilator of supplemental oxygen to maintain breathing, the researchers said.<\/p>\n “Our work suggests that with appropriately selected patients and aggressive management strategies, the use of ECMO support for severe COVID-19 can result in exceptional early survival,” study co-author Dr. Deane E. Smith said in a press release.\n<\/p>\n “These patients who leave the hospital without the need for oxygen therapy are very likely to remain alive and well one year later,” said Smith, a cardiac surgeon at NYU Langone Health in New York City.<\/p>\n With ECMO, a patient’s blood is pumped out of the body and into a heart-lung machine that removes carbon dioxide and sends oxygen-filled blood back. The treatment allows the blood to bypass the heart and lungs, giving the damaged organs time to rest and heal, according to the Mayo Clinic.\n<\/p>\n It is typically used in critical care situations, when the heart and lungs have been damaged, as is the case in many people with severe COVID-19.\n<\/p>\n Previous studies have shown that ECMO is effective in patients with severe illness from the virus, but it has been viewed as a “last ditch” option.<\/p>\n For this study, Smith and his colleagues identified 415 patients admitted to the intensive care unit at NYU Langone Health due to COVID-19 between from March 10, 2020, and May 1, 2020.<\/p>\n Of these patients, 30, or 7%, received venovenous ECMO, which involves the use of an advanced life support machine that takes over the function of damaged lungs, the researchers said.\n<\/p>\n Of all patients included in the study, 323, or 78%, were intubated for mechanical ventilatory support, according to the researchers.<\/p>\n However, intubation can damage the lungs further and “create a vicious cycle” for patients with severe lung disease or damage, Smith said.<\/p>\n Up to one year after the ECMO patients received the treatment, 26, or 87%, survived, including one who underwent a lung transplant, the data showed.<\/p>\n In addition, most of the survivors performed well on tests designed to measure lung capacity and breathing capability, the researchers said.\n<\/p>\n “We learned that lung recovery was actually possible,” Smith said.<\/p>\n “When the pandemic started, that was not clear,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Patients with severe COVID-19 treated with blood oxygenation therapy appear to have a good chance for surviving the disease, according to a new study. File photo by Debbie Hill\/UPI | License Photo March 10 (UPI) — Patients with severe COVID-19 treated with blood oxygenation therapy may see significant lung recovery and return to normal lives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1017446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2169,261,5676,3498,5864,1724,1227,28,608],"class_list":["post-1017445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-blood","tag-covid19","tag-helps","tag-hospitalized","tag-oxygenation","tag-patients","tag-severe","tag-study","tag-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nPatients with severe COVID-19 treated with blood oxygenation therapy appear to have a good chance for surviving the disease, according to a new study. File photo by Debbie Hill\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n\n