After spending a quiet night, the Pope woke up, had breakfast, had coffee And he dedicated himself to reading the newspapers, the sources added, who insisted that, however, his clinical picture remains complex and his forecast, reserved.
The 88 -year -old pontiff is hospitalized on February 14 by bronchitis with polymicrobial infection to which bilateral pneumonia joined.
Francisco “had no other crisis, after yesterday’s early in the afternoon,” said Fuentes, who explained that bronchospasm (narrowing of the bronchial duct), was part of a respiratory crisis and has not affected other organs.
It is a “different” crisis to which he suffered a week ago, on February 22, and doctors will need between 24 and 48 hours to assess how it will affect him and if he will aggravate his situation, the sources had explained on Friday.
This Saturday, the press office of the Holy See reported that the Pope, which fulfills his tenthmus day admitted to the Gemelli, spent “a quiet night” and that this morning was “resting.”
After several days of slight improvement, on Friday, February 28, the alarms broke out again when the Vatican report Its forecast is still reserved.
“The Holy Father in the afternoon of today, after a morning doing respiratory physiotherapy and in prayer in the chapel, has presented an isolated bronchospasm crisis that has determined an episode of vomiting with inhalation and a sudden worsening of the respiratory picture,” was indicated in the last Vatican medical bulletin.
The crisis for Broncoospasm made him vomit but, when he breathed, he swallowed the fluid again, so it was necessary to extract it. Now doctors must determine if those gastric juices have been able to affect the lungs.
“The Holy Father has been promptly bronchoaspirado and has begun with non -invasive mechanical ventilation, With a good response from gaseous exchanges ”, oxygen, the statement prayed.
The Argentine pontiff, who responded “well” to the therapy, was “always lucid and oriented” and “collaborating with the therapeutic maneuvers”, and was not intubated at any time, the sources said.
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In recent days, his state of health had experienced an improvement and in fact, the Vatican declared Thursday that he had left behind the “critical phase.” EFE