Pope Francis stable one day after the airway crisis, says the Vatican, says the Vatican

Rome Pope Francis stayed in a stable state on Saturday, one day after the airway crisis and spent long periods of non-invasive ventilation, which he had to recover to recover with less intense supplemental oxygen with a high river.

Francis had no further episodes of bronchial spasms, no fever, fed himself and continued his respiratory crevision physiotherapy, which actively worked, the Vatican said in a late explanation.

The 88-year-old Pope also had a good reaction to his blood gass level and only during the additional oxygen with a high river in the “long periods of time” in which he was out of the ventilator. But his forecast remained guarded.

“The Holy Father is always vigilant” and knew what was going on around him and added that he received the Eucharist and spent time in prayer.

This is a breaking news update. The following is the previous history of AP.

Pope Francis had coffee and read on Saturday after an alarming setback in his two -week recovery of double pneumonia: After a coughing adjustment, the doctors had to put him on a non -invasive mechanical ventilation in which he had to be inhaled, which then had to be extracted.

The doctors said it would take a day or two to evaluate how and whether the episode affects Francis' general clinical illness on Friday afternoon. His forecast remained guarded, which means that he was not out of danger.

In his morning update on Saturday, the Vatican said that the 88-year-old Pope had no other respiratory crises overnight: “The night had passed quietly, the Pope rests.” He had coffee in the morning for breakfast, which indicates that he was not dependent on a ventilation mask to breathe and still eat alone.

In the update late Friday, the Vatican said that Francis had suffered an “isolated crisis from bronchial spasm”, a coughing adjustment in which Francis breathed in breathing that led to a “sudden deterioration of the airways”. Doctors have sucked out the vomit and used Francis on non -invasive mechanical ventilation.

The Pope remained conscious and vigilant at all times and worked with the maneuvers to help him recover. He reacted well with a good oxygen exchange and continued to wore a mask to get additional oxygen, the Vatican said.

The episode, which took place in the early afternoon, was a setback in two consecutive days with increasingly optimistic reports from doctors that treated Franziskus in the Gemelli Hospital in Rome in Rome. The Pope, who removed part of a lung as a young man, has approved a lung disease and was admitted.

The Vatican said that the episode was different from the extended respiratory crisis on February 22, which Francis caused discomfort.

Dr. John Coleman, a pulmonary doctor in the Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, said that the isolated episode transmitted by the Vatican on Friday and underlined the fragility of Francis and his condition “very quickly”.

“I think this is extremely worrying because the Pope has been in the hospital for over two weeks now, and now he continues to have these respiratory events and now has this aspiration event that requires even greater support,” he told Associated Press.

“In view of his age and fragile state and its previous lung resection, this is very worrying,” added Coleman, who is not involved in the care of Francis.

Dr. William Feldman, a pulmonary specialist in the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said that it was a good sign that the Pope remained vigilant during the episode, but had “a worrying turn”.

“We often use non -invasive ventilation to try to ward off intubation or the use of invasive mechanical ventilation,” said Feldman.

The types of non -invasive ventilation include a BIPAP machine that helps people breathe through the air into their lungs. Doctors often try such a machine for a while to determine whether the patient's blood gass mirror improves so that at some point they can return to use oxygen alone. According to the statement on Friday, Francis showed a “good reaction” to the gas exchange with the ventilation.

The doctors did not notice that Francis was in a “critical condition”, which has not been available in their statements for three days. But they say he is not out of danger given the complexity of his case.

Francis' hospital stay came when the Vatican marked his holy year, which moves pilgrims from anywhere to Rome. They walk through the holy door in the St. Peter basilica and also make pilgrimages to the Hilltop Umbrische city Assisi to pray in the house of Francis' namesake, St. Francis.

“We pray for the Pope every day,” said Rev. Jacinto Bento, a priest who visited Assisi on Saturday with a group of 30 anniversary gates from the Azores Islands. “We are very sad for his situation.”

Veronica Abraham, a catechist and Argentinian native, came to Assisi with her two children and other children on Lake Garda on Saturday and said that the group had prayed for the Pope in every church that they had visited.

“I am sure that he hears our prayers that he feels our closeness,” she said.

Serena Barbon, who visited Assisi from Treviso on Saturday with her husband and three children, hoped that if Francis couldn't do it, the next Pope will be exactly like him.

“He was very charismatic and we pray for him and every new Pope could also be someone who puts the poor in the middle. Because we are all a bit of our arms, ”she said.

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Dell'orto reported on Assisi, Italy. Associated Press Writer Carla K. Johnson in the state of Washington contributed to this report.

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