The Gaspasser's Son
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wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 11:43 last edited by
Anesthesiologist who used to work in town and has since moved back to South Louisiana, has two of his college-aged sons hospitalised with COVID. They transferred one of them this weekend for ECMO treatment.
The young man is 19.
Novel virus, indeed...
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wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 11:51 last edited by
Wow. What are the chances he comes off ECMO with the same lungs he went on with?
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wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 11:58 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in The Gaspasser's Son:
Wow. What are the chances he comes off ECMO with the same lungs he went on with?
That's a Dr.K question...
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wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 12:27 last edited by
Both are hospitalized. What are the odds? Points to something.
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@jon-nyc said in The Gaspasser's Son:
Wow. What are the chances he comes off ECMO with the same lungs he went on with?
That's a Dr.K question...
wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 12:37 last edited by@Jolly said in The Gaspasser's Son:
@jon-nyc said in The Gaspasser's Son:
Wow. What are the chances he comes off ECMO with the same lungs he went on with?
That's a Dr.K question...
No clue. Our place didn't do ECMO - we were too small.
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wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 12:45 last edited by
Awful.
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wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 13:41 last edited by
Wow!
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wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 14:20 last edited by
@Loki said in The Gaspasser's Son:
Both are hospitalized. What are the odds? Points to something.
I've had a completely unsubstantiated-by-any-scientific-data suspicion that there's a genetic component to who gets really sick with this virus, admittedly based on nothing more than reading stuff on the internet about multiple family members getting really sick.
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wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 15:51 last edited by
The blood type effect all but confirmed as far as I'm aware. Maybe there are other genetic components. Maybe even some very rare but very dangerous ones.
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wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 15:56 last edited by
Are they not applying some kind of big data analysis on the worst cases to try to figure this out? I realize it requires extensive testing to even get the data set, let alone the analysis, but c'mon. Global pandemic.
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wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 16:09 last edited by
I wish I knew what my blood type is.
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I wish I knew what my blood type is.
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I wish I knew what my blood type is.
wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 16:27 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in The Gaspasser's Son:
I wish I knew what my blood type is.
Donate, they will test for covid and give you results, including your type.
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wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 17:01 last edited by Doctor Phibes 7 Jul 2020, 17:03
They won't take my blood as they're scared of Mad Cow disease.
It strikes me that it's a bit late for that, but anyway....
I've probably got my blood type documented somewhere, but I don't know where.
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wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 17:42 last edited by
I asked my doctor and they did not know. Even though I have had surgery in recent years.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in The Gaspasser's Son:
I wish I knew what my blood type is.
Donate, they will test for covid and give you results, including your type.
wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 17:43 last edited by@Copper said in The Gaspasser's Son:
Donate, they will test for covid and give you results, including your type.
I donated whole blood at a Red Cross facility recently. I don't think they test my blood for COVID-19, or if they do, they haven't say anything about testing my blood for COVID-19 with me.
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Anesthesiologist who used to work in town and has since moved back to South Louisiana, has two of his college-aged sons hospitalised with COVID. They transferred one of them this weekend for ECMO treatment.
The young man is 19.
Novel virus, indeed...
wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 17:57 last edited by@Jolly said in The Gaspasser's Son:
Anesthesiologist who used to work in town and has since moved back to South Louisiana, has two of his college-aged sons hospitalised with COVID. They transferred one of them this weekend for ECMO treatment.
Sorry that this wretched disease has hit your friend's sons.
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@Jolly said in The Gaspasser's Son:
Anesthesiologist who used to work in town and has since moved back to South Louisiana, has two of his college-aged sons hospitalised with COVID. They transferred one of them this weekend for ECMO treatment.
Sorry that this wretched disease has hit your friend's sons.
wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 17:58 last edited by@Axtremus said in The Gaspasser's Son:
@Jolly said in The Gaspasser's Son:
Anesthesiologist who used to work in town and has since moved back to South Louisiana, has two of his college-aged sons hospitalised with COVID. They transferred one of them this weekend for ECMO treatment.
Sorry that this wretched disease has hit your friend's sons.
+1. It's terrible they're so young, too.
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@Jolly said in The Gaspasser's Son:
Anesthesiologist who used to work in town and has since moved back to South Louisiana, has two of his college-aged sons hospitalised with COVID. They transferred one of them this weekend for ECMO treatment.
Sorry that this wretched disease has hit your friend's sons.
wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 18:39 last edited by@Axtremus said in The Gaspasser's Son:
@Jolly said in The Gaspasser's Son:
Anesthesiologist who used to work in town and has since moved back to South Louisiana, has two of his college-aged sons hospitalised with COVID. They transferred one of them this weekend for ECMO treatment.
Sorry that this wretched disease has hit your friend's sons.
Not a friend. We worked at different hospitals and as the old saying goes "I don't know him, but I know of him". I heard about his boys from a retired surgeon I know.
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wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 19:44 last edited by
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