Pope Francis has improved the situation not because of “danger”, the doctor said – the country
Pope Francis' condition was not life-threatening, but he was not in danger.
Francis' doctors made the first face-to-face update to the pope's condition, saying he will continue to be hospitalized at least next week. His doctor said Friday that the pope would occasionally receive supplements with oxygen when it needed oxygen and was responding to enhanced medications he received for anti-pneumonia and complex lung infections.
Dr. Sergio Alfieri of Gemelli Hospital and Dr. Luigi Carbone, a private physician at Francis, have been updated in detail on Francis' condition.
Carbone said Francis responded to the drug therapy that was “strengthening” after pneumonia was diagnosed earlier this week. He also battles multi-benefit infections of bacteria and viruses in the respiratory tract. Doctors say there is no evidence that bacteria entered his blood, a disease called sepsis, which they say would be the biggest problem. Sepsis is a complication of infection and can lead to organ failure and death.
When Francis needs oxygen through the nasal cannula, he also receives supplemental oxygen, a thin, flexible tube that delivers oxygen through the nose.
Francis was taken to the Jegley Hospital in Rome on February 14 due to worsening bronchitis. Later, doctors diagnosed complex respiratory infections involving bacteria, viruses and other organisms, as well as pneumonia attacks in both lungs above asthmatic bronchitis. They opened an “absolute rest”.
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As his hospital continues to work, some of the cardinals of Francis have begun to answer the obvious question of whether Francis will resign if he is irreversibly ill and unable to continue. Francis said he would consider this, “opening the door” in Pope Benedict XVI to retire the Pope, but showed no signs of resignation, actually recently asserting that the Pope's work It's lifelong.
Before the medical team’s update Friday, the Vatican said Francis got up and got out of bed for breakfast at his hospital, marking the hour of the week at his hospital. Later Thursday, the Vatican reported “slight improvement” in his overall clinical condition and his heart worked well.
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