Interesting that there is no Az or Zinc. Note early start to blood thinners. Note that recommendation for HCQ and Remdesivir is to start immediately upon presentation of symptoms. No waiting!
Posted on 04/26/2020 6:02:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The doctor’s fever spiked above 103 degrees.
His dry cough was getting worse. And the fatigue was advancing.
Dr. Joseph Manno was deteriorating with each passing day.
"I was getting progressively weaker," he said.
Manno, a vascular surgeon at Holy Name Medical Center, was home self-quarantining, trying to beat a case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
He called a colleague March 30 to update him on his condition. There was urgency in the response.
“You need to come in now,” the doctor told Manno, 65.
Holy Name was the epicenter of one of New Jersey’s early hot spots. It is among the hardest-hit hospitals in the state. During the surge in March, patients overwhelmed the Teaneck facility.
Manno had been doing his part, performing operations and working “around [the infected] all the time,” he said. Suddenly, he was in the unfamiliar position of being a patient in his own hospital.
And his colleagues feared for his life.
Manno got to Holy Name “just in the nick of time,” said Dr. Suraj Saggar, an infectious disease specialist.
“Time is of the essence," he said. "The window is very narrow.”
Manno was admitted into the intensive care unit, soaked in sweat as his fever continued to hover around 103.
Despite driving himself to the hospital and waiting with about 10 others at a triage tent outside, his breathing soon grew more and more labored. He lay in a bed, hooked up to beeping machines with an oxygen mask covering his face and an ID tag on his wrist.
His colleagues worried he was on the cusp of taking a turn for the worse.
Only later would Manno discover how close he came to being put on a ventilator.
The possibility was raised as his oxygenation levels hovered near threshold
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A cocktail of drugs flooded his body.
Holy Name doctors pumped Manno with "very powerful medications,” Saggar said. Azithromycin, an antibiotic. Heparin, an anticoagulant to fight blood clots. Hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug. And remdesivir, an antiviral.
Not one has proven to be an effective treatment for COVID-19. No one knows what worked and what didn’t for him, though Manno noted the remdesivir helped ease the inflammation in his lungs.
“That seemed to do the trick,” he said. “I started to breathe a little better. My oxygen [saturation levels] went up a little bit.”
TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT -- IT WORKED.
Last week, Manno finally returned to the hospital. He didn’t work at first, taking the time to reacclimate himself. On Thursday, he performed his first procedure since falling ill.
Having seen all the COVID-19 patients flood the hospital, having seen all those deaths, Manno said he’s grateful to be alive.
Shaken, not stirred...
Did he get a large dose of vitamin C?
No mention of Vitamin C
Interesting that there is no Az or Zinc. Note early start to blood thinners. Note that recommendation for HCQ and Remdesivir is to start immediately upon presentation of symptoms. No waiting!
It really is a strange disease.
I would be interested in hearing about the appearance of the lung on autopsy of a patient with a similar course as this doctor, who survived by the skin of his teeth it sounds like.
Zinc, Zinc, Zinc.
Oh we can’t take anything from this account.
It’s “anecdotal.”
/s
Almost seems like several different strains “escaped” from the lab...
It is but, people should have the right to try whatever they want.
Just don’t shoot up Lysol, even if you work for CNN.
What is the sound bullets make when they pass by your ear?
In other words: killed.
Dr. Falci will not be pleased.
Anecdotal evidence is case history evidence.
Its valid.
These things work despite every effort by anti Trumpers in the media, the medical profession and political positions.
The y did give him AZ, he got a blood thinner, Zpack, Hydrocloroquine, and remdesivir glad they could keep him off the vent!!
I wonder why in the hell this doctor didn’t treat himself right at the onset with the Hydrocloroquine and Zpack why did he wait to end up in the hospital??
“...Only later would Manno discover how close he came to being put on a ventilator.
The possibility was raised as his oxygenation levels hovered near threshold...”
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I’m surprised that he apparently didn’t have a fingertip pulse oximeter at home to monitor his blood oxygen saturation level. I just got one for my family and told my family doctor I was adding it to my “toolkit”. He wasn’t impressed and said I’d “feel like crap” before I picked up a low level. He said he’d be more interested in my tracking my oxygen levels during sleep.
No zinc?
But, but, but Remdesivir is the Gilead drug that China/WHO “leaked” didn’t work.
;>)
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