Olympic champion in ice dancing Roman Kostomarov in an interview First Channel He talked about what was the scariest moment for him in the hospital.
“I probably came to my senses after the anesthesia. Naturally, his wife Oksana was also nearby. And I remember being covered in bloody iodopyron bandages. And there is no stop. And only later, when I saw what was on the bandage, was I truly horrified. “I didn’t understand all this,” Kostomarov said.
At the beginning of January 2023, the skater was hospitalized after New Year’s performances at the outdoor show. The champion was taken to intensive care and put on a ventilator with pneumonia, and his condition was assessed to be extremely serious. The athlete was transported to a hospital in Kommunarka, resuscitated and connected to an artificial blood oxygen saturation device (ECMO), after which he remained on a ventilator for a long time.
Complications caused by the disease led to the development of gangrene, for which doctors had to perform a series of amputation surgeries: the skater lost both legs, the hand of one hand and the fingers of the other hand. On July 6, Kostomarov was discharged from the hospital in Kommunarka, where he spent 175 days.
Previously Kostomarov named Cause of pneumonia leading to amputations.