Youngest patient on ventilator in KCS Covid hospital is only 19 years old: "No one is spared"

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Director of the Center for Anesthesiology and Resuscitation of the Clinical Center of Serbia (KCS), Professor Doctor Nebojsa Ladjevic said today that, compared to the first peak, there are now more patients infected with coronavirus who exhibit a severe clinical picture, and that the youngest patient on a ventilator in the KCS Covid hospital was born in 2001.

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"Now we have more younger patients, in their 20s and 30s, and 30s and 40s, even they are on mechanical ventilation, so no one is spared," Ladjevic told RTS.

When asked how old are the youngest patients on mechanical ventilation, in one of the Covid hospitals of the Clinical Center of Serbia, Ladjevic said that there are patients who were born in 1994 and in 2001, and that therefore caution is needed.

"The more sick people we have, the more they present a more severe clinical picture. In those who seek help in time, we manage to restrain the disease, so it doesn't come to ventilators. So far, we have about 10 percent of those we have separated from ventilators," said Ladjevic.

(Telegraf.rs)