Pope Francis I took coffee and read the newspapers on Saturday After an alarming mishap In its two-week recovery from the double pneumonia: Doctors had to put it into non-invasive mechanical ventilation after a cough adjustment in which it inhaled the vomit that needed to be extracted.
Doctors said it would take one or two days to evaluate how and if the Friday afternoon episode affected Francis’ general clinical condition. His prognosis remained guarded, which means he was not safe.
In its morning update Saturday, the Vatican said that the 88 -year -old pope had no more respiratory crises at night: « The night has passed quietly, the pope rests. » He had a coffee in the morning for breakfast, suggesting that he did not depend on a ventilation mask to breathe and still ate on his own.
At the Friday afternoon update, the Vatican said that Francis suffered a « isolated crisis of bronchial spasm », a toss adjustment in which Francis inhaled the vomit, which was a « sudden worsening of the respiratory image ». The doctors aspired to the vomit and placed Francis in non -invasive mechanical ventilation.
The pope remained aware and alert at all times and cooperated with the maneuvers to help him recover. He responded well, with a good level of oxygen exchange and continued to carry a mask to receive supplementary oxygen, said the Vatican.
The episode, which occurred in the early afternoon, was a setback in which two successive days of increasingly optimistic reports of doctors who have been treating Francis at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome since February 14. The pope, who was part of a lung eliminated as a young man, has lung diseases and was admitted after a buzz of bronchitis pushed and turned into pneumonia in pneumonia in the lungs.
Doctors say episode is alarming
The Vatican said that the episode was different from the prolonged respiratory crisis on February 22, which was said to be discomfort to Francis.
Dr. John Coleman, a Chicago Northwestern Medicine Pulmonary Critical Care Physician, said that the isolated episode on Friday as transmitted by the Vatican was also alarming and emphasized the fragility of Francis and that his state « can turn very quickly. »
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« I think this is extremely important, since the pope has been in the hospital for more than two weeks, and now he continues to have these respiratory events and now he had this aspiration event that requires even higher levels of support, » he told Associated Press.
« So given his age and fragile state and his previous pulmonary resection, this is very important, » added Coleman, who is not involved in Francis’s care.
Dr. William Feldman, a Pulmonary Specialist in Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said that it was a good sign for the pope to stay alert and focused on the episode, but agreed that he marked « a worrying turn ».
« We will often use non -invasive ventilation as a way to try to avoid intubation or the use of invasive mechanical ventilation, » said Feldman.
Non -invasive ventilation types include a bipap machine, which helps people to breathe pressing the air in the lungs. Doctors usually try a machine for a while to see if the patient’s blood gas levels improve so that they can re -use oxygen alone. Friday’s statement said that Francis showed a « good answer » to gas exchange through ventilation.
The doctors did not resume, referring to Francis in « critical conditions », who have been there for three days. But they say he is not safe, given the complexity of his case.
The sentences continued to pour
Francis’s hospitalization has arrived when the Vatican is marking his saint who attracts pilgrims to Rome from all over. They walk through the Holy Gate of the Basilica of Sant Pere and also make pilgrimages in the city of Assisi, to pray at the house of the name of Francesc, Sant Francesc.
« Every day we pray for the pope, » said Reverell Jacinto Bento, a priest who visited Assisi on Saturday with a group of 30 Pilgrims of Jubilee of the Azores Islands. « We are very sad for their situation. »
Veronica Abraham, a Argentine catechist and natural, came to Assisi on Saturday with his two children and other children from his parish on Lake Garda, saying that the group had prayed for the Pope in all the churches they had visited.
« I am sure that we are feeling our sentences, that we feel our proximity, » he said.
Serena Barbon, a visitor to Treviso on Saturday with her husband and three children, said that he hoped that if Francis fails to succeed, the next pope will be the same as him.
« He has been very charismatic and we pray for him and any new pope is also someone who puts the poor in the center. Because we are all a little poor, » he said.
–Dell’orto reported Assisi, Italy. Associated Press writer Carla K. Johnson, in the state of Washington, contributed to this report.
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