Pope Francis He suffered two new acute respiratory crises on Monday and sold non -invasive mechanics, in another setback in his battle to fight pneumonia, the Vatican he said.
The doctors extracted amounts of « copious » mucus from their lungs for two bronchoscopy, in which a camera tip tube was sent to the respiratory tract with a suction cup on the tip by suction of the liquid. The Vatican said that the mucus was the reaction of the body to the original pneumonia infection and not a new infection, as the laboratory tests do not indicate a new bacterium.
Francis remained alert, oriented and cooperated with medical staff. The prognosis remained kept. The doctors did not say if they remained in a stable state, although they referred to the crises in the past time, suggesting that they were finished.
The crises were a new mishap in which it has become a battle of more than two weeks by the 88 -year -old pope, which has a chronic lung disease and was part of a eliminated lung, to overcome a complex respiratory infection.
In a late update, the Vatican said that the episodes were caused by a « significant accumulation » of mucus in their lungs and bronchial spasms. The « copious secretions » were extracted during the bronchoscopy and the pope was re -sold non -invasive mechanics, a mask that covers his nose and mouth, and pumping oxygen in the lungs, the Vatican said.
The Vatican has not published a photo or videos by Francis since he entered the hospital on February 14 with a complex pulmonary infection. This has become the longest absence of his 12 -year -old papacy.
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The Vatican has defended Francis’s decision to recover -in peace and out of public sight. But on Monday, one of Francis’s closest friends to the Vatican, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, urged him to let his voice be heard, saying that the world needs to listen to it.
« We need men like him who are really universal and not just unilateral, » said Paglia, speaking after an press conference to launch the annual assembly of his pontifical Academy for Life, The Vatican’s Bioethics Academy, which has the subject of this year « The end of the world? »
Francis wrote a message to the assembly in which he regretted that international organizations are becoming more ineffective to combat the threats that are facing the world and are being diminished by « short -term attitudes related to the protection of particular and national interests ». It was dated February 26 and was signed « by Gemelli Polyclinic ».
Doctors often use non -invasive ventilation to prevent intubation or use of invasive mechanical ventilation. Francis has not been intubated during this hospitalization. It is unclear if you have provided early guidelines over the limits of your care if you decline or lose awareness.
Catholic teaching claims that life must be defended from conception to natural death. He insists that patients with chronic diseases, including vegetative states, need to receive « ordinary » care such as hydration and nutrition, but « extraordinary » or disproportionate care can be suspended if it is no longer beneficial or only extends a precarious and painful life.
Francis articulated that at a meeting of the Bioethics body of Paglia in 2017, saying that « there was no obligation to resort to all circumstances to all possible remedies ». He added: « Therefore, it makes possible a decision that is described morally as a withdrawal of » excessive treatment « .
Paglia, whose office helps to articulate the position of the Catholic Church on end -of -life care, said that Francis is like any other Catholic and that he would follow the teaching of the Church if he was reached.
« Today the pope is giving us extraordinary teaching about fragility, » he added. « Today the pope, not through the words, but with his body, reminds us all, to the elderly we begin, that we are all fragile and, therefore, we must take care of each other. »
The hospitalization of 17 nights of Francis does not in any case reach the papal record that was established during the numerous hospitalizations of San Juan Pau II for a quarter of a century.
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