Denis Protsenko, Chief Physician of City Clinical Hospital No. 40, in an interview “Arguments and Facts” He talked about the tactics of treating the 46-year-old figure skater Roman Kostomarov.
According to him, the damage to the lung tissue of the 2006 Olympic champion was so great that even the ventilator did not allow the oxygen level in the body to be adequately maintained.
“The multidisciplinary council made the only possible decision: in the hospital where Kostomarov was taken, he was connected to the ECMO and ventilators, and in this case he was taken to Kommunarka.
One of the metropolitan ECMO centers is located here with high competence of doctors and nurses. “In the two years since the pandemic, we have gained tremendous experience in managing such cases,” Protsenko said.
Recall that Kostomarov was hospitalized on January 10 with bilateral pneumonia. The athlete developed sepsis, which, against his background, led to amputation of the feet.
Earlier, Denis Protsenko said that figure skater Roman Kostomarov has necrosis. it was inevitable.