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Newswise ? According to the critical care experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital who treated him, Allen Bagents, 24, of Arlington, Va., is the least likely person anyone ever expects to get sick, let alone suffer a six-week, potentially fatal bout with the swine flu, better known as H1N1 influenza.
A recently graduated economist his brother calls the ?smartest guy he knows,? Bagents was healthy in July 2009, with no pre-existing medical conditions except for a leg infection caused by a bug bite three weeks earlier in Louisiana, when he sought treatment in a community hospital in Southern Maryland for fevers and trouble breathing.
What happened next, described in a report set to appear in the Journal of the American Medical Association online Dec. 8, have his caregivers at Johns Hopkins crediting the community hospital medical team?s swift recognition of lung failure and the quick transfer to Hopkins with saving Bagents? life.
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http://www.newswise.com/articles/ca...d-with-heart-lung-machine-and-lung-transplant
A recently graduated economist his brother calls the ?smartest guy he knows,? Bagents was healthy in July 2009, with no pre-existing medical conditions except for a leg infection caused by a bug bite three weeks earlier in Louisiana, when he sought treatment in a community hospital in Southern Maryland for fevers and trouble breathing.
What happened next, described in a report set to appear in the Journal of the American Medical Association online Dec. 8, have his caregivers at Johns Hopkins crediting the community hospital medical team?s swift recognition of lung failure and the quick transfer to Hopkins with saving Bagents? life.
...
http://www.newswise.com/articles/ca...d-with-heart-lung-machine-and-lung-transplant