Pope Francis The situation is not life-threatening, but not out of danger, his medical team said on Friday, because 88-year-old PontiF was his first week at a hospital with pneumonia at the top of chronic bronchitis.
Francis doctors delivered their first personal update about the pope’s condition, saying they would remain hospitalized at least all the next week. The Pope receives occasional oxygen supplements when he needs and responds to a strengthened drug therapy he receives in the fight against pneumonia and complex lung infections, his doctors said on Friday.
Hospital Gemelli, Dr. Sergio Alfieri and Francis’s personal doctor, Dr. Luigi Carbone gave a detailed update of Francis’ state.
Carbone said Francis responded to drug therapy that was “reinforced” after pneumonia was diagnosed at the beginning of this week. It also fights multiple infection of bacteria and viruses in the respiratory tract. Doctors said there was no evidence that the germs had entered his bloodstream, which is known as sepsis for which they said they would be the biggest concern. Sepsa is a complication of an infection that can lead to organ and death failure.
Francis also receives additional oxygen when he needs to have a thin flexible tube that carries oxygen through the nose through the nasal canil.
Pope Francis disease diagnosed as pneumonia, respiratory infection
Francis was admitted to the Gemelli Roman hospital on February 14th after the Bronchitis case was agreed. The doctors later diagnosed with a complex respiratory infection, which includes bacteria, virus and other organisms and the beginning of pneumonia in both lungs at the top of asthmatic bronchitis. They prescribed a “absolute vacation”.
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While his stay in the hospital is withdrawing, some of Francis’s Cardinals began to answer the apparent question that circulates: can Francis resign if he becomes irreversibly ill and incapable of continuing. Francis said he would consider it, after Pope Benedict XVI. “Open the door” to the pope who retreated, but did not show the signs to step down and in recently claimed that the Pope’s job was for life.
Prior to updating the medical team on Friday, the Vatican said that Francis had marked a one -week spot at his hospital, getting out of bed to have breakfast. Late on Thursday, the Vatican reported on a “slight improvement” in its overall clinical condition, and his heart worked well.
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