Image: Patient lying in hospital bed in intensive care unit in Germany in 2015
Description: A patient is lying in a hospital bed in an intensive care unit of a hospital in Germany 2015. Above the man is a monitor for heart rate and other parameters, to the right are apparatuses (syringe drivers) for administering medicine into the bloodstream. The standing person is a visitor. The orange sign says "Infektiös", which is German for "contagious". The persons on the picture were made unidentifiable by pixelization of the faces. The patient suffered from a very severe sepsis due to a prior surgical operation which had gone wrong, which had led to multi-organ failure caused by a grave bacterial infection of the body between the hip region and the lungs. After spending two months in the intensive care unit and one further month in a specialized hospital department for kidney treatment, the patient had lost weight from 75 kg to less than 50 kg. He then left, fully recovered within weeks and is since then entirely well until present (2022), without any remains of the events.
Title: Patient lying in hospital bed in intensive care unit in Germany in 2015
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Author: Pittigrilli
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