A female patient with a serve form of severe pancreatitis was saved by doctors of the Emergency Medicine Institute after 60 days of intensive care. While staying in the hospital, the woman underwent seven surgeries and had five sessions of continuous venovenous hemodiafiltration, which reduces the systemic inflammatory response syndrome and organ dysfunction, IPN reports.
According to doctors, actuate pancreatitis with severe evolution is a challenge for contemporary medicine, with increased lethality. In the case of the female patient, the lethality was higher than 90%.
The woman returned home to her family and her two daughters aged three months who were waiting for her home. “Only after you experience such moments, you realize that health is more important than anything. I thank the medical personnel of Surgery Unit No. 1 and the Intensive Care Unit as, owing to their professionalism and the enormous efforts they made, I can now embrace my daughters,” said the patient.
The costs of the medical services provided to the woman, including of consumables needed in the continuous venovenous hemodiafiltration procedures, came to over 1 million lei. They were covered by the National Health Instance Company.
