@DrDiGiorgio Even if they pay you it’s difficult to be an expert at two vastly deep aspects of medicine. Internal Medicine based critical care will always outperform surgery based critical care.
The process of getting “listed” for a lung transplant is not easy. 1) he would need to have a lung disease that is fixable by transplant (we don’t know that) 2) he would require an extensive work up to determine he is a candidate.
According to Elyse RESP score he has a 76% chance of survival from receiving these treatments if our initial diagnosis is correct (again limited info).
@DovySimuMMA@MrPatMineo As a pulmonologist have a “hole in your lungs” is not an indication for lung transplant. Need more info cause this isn’t making sense
@MrPatMineo I mean if he needs a lung transplant it’s not good. Lung transplant has maybe a 5 year survival if lucky. And this comes from a PCCM Intensivist that works at a lung transplant center!