According to the BBC’s previous report, the British Prime Minister’s Office issued a statement on the 6th that Johnson’s condition deteriorated that night, and he was transferred to the intensive care unit of St. Thomas Hospital in London at the suggestion of the medical team.
Liu Zheyi, a doctor who has worked in NHS for 14 years in Britain, told The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) that doctors usually choose to let patients into the intensive care unit when they need to use a respirator. Boris’s condition is serious at present, but I don’t know whether he has started to use a respirator. "It is possible that ‘(CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) is used, which belongs to a kind of non-invasive ventilation.
It is understood that non-invasive ventilation refers to the positive pressure ventilation that the ventilator is connected with the patient through the mouth or nasal mask, and there is no need to establish an invasive artificial airway. In the early stage, it was mainly used as an adjuvant treatment for sleep respiratory syndrome. In recent 10 years, this technology has been widely used to treat a variety of acute and chronic respiratory failure. It is the best time to apply noninvasive ventilation when the problems of respiratory mechanics abnormality and respiratory muscle fatigue are obvious and the problem of sputum drainage is relatively minor. Studies have shown that non-invasive ventilation support can reduce death, failure of weaning, pneumonia, time in intensive care unit and hospitalization time.
According to CNN, Johnson is 55 years old. He was diagnosed with Covid-19 on March 27th and has been working at home ever since. Johnson was first taken to a hospital in London for a "routine check-up" on the evening of April 5 because he still had "persistent symptoms" and fever after 10 days of isolation. On the 5th, officials of the British Prime Minister’s Office tried to downplay the seriousness of Johnson’s illness, saying that Johnson was a preventive measure taken at the doctor’s suggestion, not an emergency hospitalization. According to the British "Times" and other media reports, Johnson received "oxygen therapy" after hospitalization. Just before he was sent to the intensive care unit on the 6th, Boris Johnson tweeted in the hospital that he was "in good spirits" and kept in touch with the government team. According to the Prime Minister’s spokesman, Johnson spent a "comfortable" night in the hospital, but would not comment on the report that Johnson was taking oxygen. In addition, Johnson has asked British Foreign Secretary Dominic Rab to act as Prime Minister under "necessary circumstances".
According to the latest data released by the British Ministry of Health and Social Security on the 6th, there were 3,802 newly diagnosed cases of COVID-19 in Britain, with a total of 51,608 cases. In addition, in the past 24 hours, there were 439 new COVID-19 deaths in Britain, bringing the total number of deaths to 5,373.