“I had a natural birth but the baby was very small. I didn’t know it was a girl, she didn’t survive, but she gave me the little kick for me to keep going because after this happened with María José, my recovery began to be impressive”, he recounts while his voice breaks when he remembers his daughter.
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But therapy is not easy and the rehabilitation process is challenging.. Dr. Salazar says that patients must learn to walk and even speak again.
He is a calm and kind man, willing to offer second chances of life. Perhaps facing death daily brings with it a great reward, the feeling of satisfaction of having fulfilled a duty.
Registering one of the highest survival rates in patients with COVID-19 who have required ECMO therapy was one of the determining factors in receiving recognition from the ELSO as a Platinum Category Center of Excellence.
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“This therapy is offered to people who are very seriously ill, to the most critical patients in the entire clinic. This generates a lot of hope because they see therapy as the last chance. Although it saves many, about 30% of patients do not survive. We face death.”pointed out the FCV professional.
Fourteen days connected to ECMO, more than two months in rehabilitation and hundreds of tears were necessary for Alexandra to return to being that happy and warrior woman as described. Not only did she beat death, but her dream of being a mother came true some time later.
Today, in the company of her little María Paula and her husband José, she feels like the luckiest woman. He knows that a mother’s love and an artificial lung were the perfect recipe to beat covid-19.
