Rome – “Releasing the prognosis is a serious matter, it means that the clinical observation for the doctors is promising. Evidently the stable conditions have allowed it: there have been no new crises and the blood tests, which are a very important element to take into consideration, give good results”.
Dario Leosco, president of the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics and full professor at the Federico II University in Naples , said this in an interview with Repubblica . The Pope is still using oxygen. For Leosco, it is an "important type of assistance.
or weaning from respiratory support, even high-flow, must be extremely gradual. They have probably already started doing it.” “It is not good for an elderly person to remain hospitalized for a long time, even if the hospital allows closer monitoring.
In a few days they will decide when to dehospitalize him. It is likely that at home among the therapies prescribed by colleagues there will also be oxygen", he underlines.
