The condition of Pope Francis is not potentially deadly, but he is not out of danger, said his medical team on Friday, since the 88 -year -old pontiff marked his first week in a hospital with pneumonia about chronic bronchitis.
Francis's doctors delivered their first update in person about the Pope's condition, saying that it will remain hospitalized at least the next week. The Pope is receiving occasional oxygen supplements when he needs it and is responding to strengthened pharmacological therapy that he is receiving to fight against pneumonia and a complex lung infection, their doctors said Friday.
Dr. Sergio Alfierer Gemellile Hospital and Francis's doctor, Dr. Lugi Carbon gave glass used for a Francis condition.
Carbone said that Francis was responding to the pharmacological therapy “strengthened” after pneumonia was diagnosed earlier this week. He is also fighting a multiprographic infection of bacteria and viruses in the respiratory tract. The doctors said there was no evidence that the germs had entered their bloodstream, a condition known as sepsis that they said it would be the greatest concern. Sepsis is a complication of an infection that can lead to organic insufficiency and death.
Francis also receives supplementary oxygen when he needs it through a nasal cannula, a thin flexible tube that offers oxygen through the nose.
Francis was admitted to the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on February 14 after a bronchitis case worsened. Later, doctors diagnosed a complex respiratory infection, which involves bacteria, viruses and other organisms and the beginning of pneumonia in both lungs at the top of asthmatic bronchitis. They prescribed “absolute rest.”
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As his stay at the hospital crawls, some of Francis's cardinals have begun to answer the obvious question that circulates: if Francis could give up if he gets sick irreversibly and cannot continue. Francis has said that he would consider it, after Pope Benedict XVI “opened the door” to the potatoes retiring, but has not shown signs of giving up and has recently affirmed that Pope's work is for life.
Before the medical team update on Friday, the Vatican said that Francis marked the point of a week in his stay at the hospital getting up and getting out of bed for breakfast. On Thursday night, the Vatican reported a “slight improvement” in his general clinical condition, with his heart working well.
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