My Mother who is a patient of CIDP has
developed Pneumonia while she was under
treatment in the hospital. Now the doctors
shifted her to ICU and she is under oxygen
mask maintaing a 88-90 oxygen saturation.
As she is taking steroids the high dose
antibiotics are not working properly.
Doctors told if the situation deteoriates
further we need to go for Ventilation,
listening to which I got horrified. Having
said that my questions are:
1. What kind of Pneumonia it is?
2. Do we have any alternative and certain
way of treating that?
3. How to avoid ventilation as from my
experience I have seen rarely people are
coming out of ventilator, as they
developed dependency?
4. Suggest me some good readings/link
about this kind of scenario
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The Ginger 1
Moderator
Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 556 Location: Loony-tune-land, England
Hi I'm so sorry to hear about your Mum
....
And I can understand how difficult this
time is for you..
I have pasted a link which explains
different types of pneumonia.
However, to determine what is happening,
ask the doctor that is treating her to
explain in plain English to you what is
happening, and what they are doing, keep
on at them, however, I'm sure they know
what they are doing.
