There are currently 53 patients in Israeli intensive care units with ECMO devices used to rescue people from the most severe cases of coronavirus infection. This is a record since the start of the pandemic.
- The pandemic situation in Israel is getting worse
- Hospital executives in Israel say they face a shortage of ECMO machines
- Israel’s health system could be “on a path to complete failure if action is not taken immediately”
- More information can be found on the Onet homepage
What is ECMO?
Extracorporeal blood oxygenation (ECMO) devices work the human heart and lungs when they are not functioning properly. Doctors call ECMO a last resort device and they use it when even a respirator doesn’t help anymore. ECMO is used for extracorporeal blood oxygenation and elimination of carbon dioxide from it. Respirators only aid breathing, while ECMO supports the heart and respiratory system by oxygenating the patient’s blood outside the body.
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COVID-19 in Israel. Still not good
New coronavirus infections in Israel reach several thousand cases a day (on September 14 it was almost 13 thousand). In terms of the number of inhabitants, it is approx. 900 to 1. cases per million, while in the United States it is 400 new cases per million. Experts are wondering why the situation in Israel is so bad, especially since the country started a vaccination campaign very early, as well as a booster vaccination campaign.
However, doctors emphasize that in the country, not everyone wants to be vaccinated and the vast majority of coronavirus infections still affect people who are not vaccinated. Israel where vaccinated is 64 percent peoplein terms of the number of fully vaccinated people, it has already been overtaken by over a dozen countries. In many countries, the vaccination coverage is over 70%and in part even over 80% fully vaccinated people.
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- In Israel, a record high number of patients on respirators
- Record number of infections in highly vaccinated Singapore
- Geneticist: we can expect up to another 40. deaths due to COVID-19
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