Pope Francis drank coffee and read the newspaper on Saturday After an alarming return In his two -week recovery from a double pneumonia: doctors had to put it on non -invasive mechanical ventilation after a cough in which he breathed vomiting that was to be singled out.
Doctors said it would take a day or two to evaluate that and whether the episode had influenced Francis’ overall clinical situation on Friday afternoon. His forecast remained guarded, which means he was not out of danger.
In his morning update on Saturday, the Vatican said that the 88-year-old Pope had no further respiratory crisis overnight: “The night is quiet, the Pope is resting.” In the morning, he drank coffee for breakfast, suggesting that he did not depend on the ventilation breathing mask and still eats alone.
In an update of late Friday, the Vatican said Francis suffered a “isolated crisis of a bronchial spasm”, a cough in which Francis inhaled vomiting, which resulted in “a sudden deterioration of respiratory paintings.” Doctors aspired vomiting and put Francisco on non -invasive mechanical ventilation.
The Pope remained aware and awake at all times and collaborated with maneuvers to help him recover. He replied well, with a good level of oxygen exchange and continued to wear a mask to receive additional oxygen, Vatican said.
The episode, which occurred in the early afternoon, marked the failure in what were two consecutive days of the increasing reports of doctors who treated Francisco at the Gemelli Roman Hospital of February 14th. The Pope, which part of one lung was removed as a young man, is the lungs even after swallowing in Pnnemitit.
Pope Francis who is slowly recovering from a double pneumonia
Doctors say the episode is alarming
The Vatican said that the episode was different from a long -term respiratory crisis on February 22, which was said to have caused the discomfort of Francis.
Dr. John Coleman, a lung critical care doctor at Northwestern medicine in Chicago, said the episode was isolated on Friday that the Vatican had transmitted and still alarming and underlined Francis’s fragility and that his condition could “turn very quickly”.
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“I think this is extremely worrying, given the fact that the Pope has been in the hospital for more than two weeks, and now he continues to have these respiratory events, and now he has had this pursuit event that requires an even higher support level,” he told Associated Press.
“So, given his age and his fragile condition and the previous lung resource, this is very worrying,” added Coleman, who is not involved in Francis’s care.
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Dr. William Feldman, a pulmonary specialist in Brigham and a women’s hospital in Boston, said it was a good sign that the Pope had remained awake and oriented during the episode, but it agreed that he labeled a “worrying turn”.
“We will often use non -invasive ventilation as a way of trying to remove intubation or use of invasive mechanical ventilation,” Feldman said.
Types of non -invasive ventilation include a Bipap machine that helps people breathe by pushing air into the lungs. Doctors will often try such a machine for a while to see if the level of gas in the blood is improved so that they can only return to the use of oxygen. A statement on Friday says Francis showed a “good answer” to gas exchange using ventilation.
The doctors did not continue since Francis was in a “critical state”, which has been absent from their statements for three days. But they say it is not out of danger, given the complexity of its case.
Prayers were still poured
Francis’s hospitalization came as the Vatican commemorates its Holy Year, which attracts pilgrims to Rome from all over. They walk the holy doors at the Basilica of St. Peter and also make pilgrimages to the city in Umbria’s hill Assisi, in order to pray at the House of Francis’s namesake, Vol. Francis.
“We pray every day for the Pope,” said Reverend Jacinto Bento, a priest who visited Assisi on Saturday with a group of 30 jubilee pilgrims from the island of Azora. “We are very sad about his situation.”
Veronica Abraham, a catechist and Argentine native, came to Assisi on Saturday with her two children and other children from her parish on Lake Garda and said that the group prayed for the pope at every church they visited.
“I’m sure she hears our prayers, to feel our closeness,” she said.
Serena Barbon, who visited Assisi from Trevis on Saturday with her husband and three children, said she hoped that if Francis failed, the next pope would be just like him.
“He was very charismatic and we pray for him and that every new pope could also be someone who puts the poor in the center. Because we are all a little poor,” she said.
–Dell’orto reported from Assisi, Italy. The writer’s writer Carl K. Johnson in the State of Washington contributed to this report.
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