Jacksonville man in ICU with COVID-19 hoping to receive lifesaving treatment

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Daughter says her begetter is campaigner for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 40-year-old Jacksonville antheral is warring for his beingness against COVID-19 arsenic helium holds retired for a lifesaving technology.

Shane Oneal’s combat against COVID-19 started 2 and a fractional weeks ago.

“They instantly enactment him connected oxygen. They started steroids, they started antibiotics due to the fact that helium had COVID pneumonia,” said Kylie Dean, Oneal’s daughter.

Dean is an ICU caregiver and is large with his archetypal grandchild, a babe boy.

“I’m trying to enactment hopeful for my dada due to the fact that I spot the effects that COVID has connected patients,” said Dean.

Shane Oneal and his daughter, Kylie Dean. (Provided to WJXT)

She received a telephone telephone connected Thursday that her begetter was moving to the intensive attraction unit.

“‘Just calling to fto you know, we conscionable intubated your father.’ Of course, the precise past happening helium said was, ‘Call my girl and archer her what is going on.’ He’s connected the max enactment that a ventilator tin get,” said Dean.

Within hours of intubating him, Dean said, she learned her begetter was a campaigner for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, besides known arsenic ECMO.

“ECMO fundamentally bypasses my dad’s bosom and lungs and filters his humor for him. Oxygenates get escaped of the c dioxide, each of these things,” said Dean. “It allows his bosom and his lungs to rest.”

Unfortunately, the infirmary Oneal is astatine doesn’t person ECMO beds. Dean said UF Health and Mayo Clinic person ECMO, but nary are available. UF Health officials told News4Jax the infirmary has 2 ECMO beds, but they are presently being used.

“His endurance complaint close present is 25 to 29 percent. With ECMO, it would enactment him person to the 60-percent range,” said Dean. “He lone has a azygous organ nonaccomplishment close now, which is his lungs. It could beryllium a substance of clip earlier it turns into multi-organ nonaccomplishment and perchance not go a campaigner for ECMO.”

Dean said she has made calls to different facilities with ECMO crossed the country. She is praying a furniture volition unfastened soon truthful her begetter tin conscionable his archetypal grandchild.

Dean said the infirmary her begetter is astatine is besides helping them effort to find an ECMO bed.

She said that a week earlier her begetter was expected to get the vaccine was erstwhile helium contracted COVID-19.