The journalist was in the process of rehabilitation at the Santa Catalina Clinic, but this Saturday the doctors decided to return him to his primary hospital.
The journalist Jorge Lanata He has been going through serious health complications recently, and this Saturday, after presenting fever and urinary problems, he had to be transferred to the Italian Hospital again.
This fact represents a new setback for Lanata, who was in the Santa Catalina Clinicwhere he had been referred days ago to begin his rehabilitation process. However, due to its worsening, The doctors decided to return him to his primary hospital, where he had been admitted in June for cardiac arrest.
During his stay of almost four months, he had two trips to the neurorehabilitation clinic: On September 9, they determined his transfer to Santa Catalinaalthough shortly after, on the 18th of the same month, he had to return to the hospital with pneumonia. After improvements in his situation, On Tuesday, September 24, he returned to the placewhere he remained until his new complication today.
The details of his recent in the clinic where he was
The medical report had detailed that the communicator was “connected to mechanical ventilation throughout the night” and added that he shows “good tolerance to disconnection” as well as to the “speaking valve during the daytime.”
The valve is used in patients with tracheostomies in order to facilitate dialect or any type of noise, without the need to use your finger to block the intervention every time you speak.
However, The journalist suffered a respiratory infection, so he underwent antibiotic treatment, to which he responded favorably and without fever. “As for the neurological status, there are improvements in the level of consciousness and continued disorientation,” they stated from the clinic.
Likewise, the medical report explained that Lanata continued “with the comprehensive interdisciplinary rehabilitation plan” that had been programmed when he entered the institution. The schedule includes: respiratory and motor kinesiology, occupational therapy, speech therapy and neuropsychology.
In order to “meet the objectives set by the Respiratory Kinesiology Service”, the communicator was in the process of “adaptation to the occlusion of the cannula in your tracheostomy”. That is, you struggle to breathe around the cannula, instead of through it.
Source: Ambito
