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TORONTO Doctors have successfully completed the first double lung transplant in Canada for a man whose lungs were devastated by COVID-19. Tim Sauve, 61, became ill with COVID-19 in December when he noticed himself getting dizzy at home in Mississauga, Ont. In a matter of days he ended up in hospital, unable to breathe. âI was put on 100 per cent oxygen at that moment, and after that there was no turning back, they could not lower my oxygenâ Sauve told CTV Newsâ chief medical correspondent Avis Favaro. âAt that point it got very, very serious.â Sauve was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) at Toronto General Hospital in January with acute respiratory distress syndrome - or lung failure â caused by COVID-19. At that time, he was also put on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) which is a treatment that pumps the blood outside the body into an artificial lung to become oxygenated and then cycles it back into the patient, basica
Published Monday, April 12, 2021 6:35AM EDT TORONTO Timothy Sauve was brushing his teeth one morning in December when he was hit by a dizzy spell that knocked him off his feet. The 61-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., didn t expect that to be the first sign of a COVID-19 infection. But within days he had developed a fever, experienced breathlessness in his sleep, and was rushed to hospital with a deteriorating condition that eventually required a double-lung transplant - believed to be the first done in Canada on a patient whose lungs were irreparably damaged by the virus. Sauve, a healthy, physically fit man before he contracted the virus, saw the infection wreak havoc on his lungs over his two-month stay in the intensive care units of two different Toronto area hospitals.