When we patients turn up for our H.E.L.P. apheresis treatment, our job is ‘comparatively easy’ (well, at least from treatment number two onwards – because for some of us, the first treatment can be a bit ‘special’, as ‘firsts’ can sometimes make us nervous, and often existing anxiety and cognitive dysfunction do not help). Thankfully our lovely nurses are always super calm and professional, so in the end it always turns out to be much easier than you think).
しかし、治療を開始する前に、かなりのロジスティクスと準備が必要です。
Every single ‘Plasmat Futura’ (the name of the B.Braun H.E.L.P. Apheresis machine) with its serial number has a machine log book and gets regular services by certified apheresis machine technicians.
物資のほとんどは航空貨物で運ばれ、生産施設から温度ガイド付きの物流、冷却倉庫まで、常に冷却する必要がある。
処理の約1時間前に、30キログラムの液体（NaCl、酢酸塩、重炭酸塩、ヘパラン硫酸塩）とパイプ、吸着器、フィルターを準備し、接続し、マシンを洗浄し、テストし、準備し、すべてのポンプ、クランプ、センサー、電子機器が100％正確で作動するかどうかを確認するために、いくつかの機械的な自己テストを行う必要がある（このプロセスをプライミングと呼ぶ）。
それが終わると、機械の準備が整い、スタンバイモードで患者さんを待ちます。来院され、アフェレーシス針またはアフェレーシスカテーテルが接続されると、看護師が治療を開始し、約2時間半かかります。この2.5時間の間、あなたは全自動の超快適なバイオニック・ベッド・チェアに快適に座っています。
And after those 2,5 hours the precipitation filter then holds a lot of pathogens (fibrinogen and other clotting factors, inflammatory proteins, viral spike and fragments, cholesterol and autoantibodies and a long list of other toxins and pathogens) that were previously inside your body/blood and your blood is about 10% less thick/viscous whilst your blood vessels temporarily have increased 20% in size/volume and with that the microcirculation. In other words – 100% of your blood volume (or a bit more) is processed and cleaned in one treatment.
And after the 3rd or 4th H.E.L.P. Apheresis treatment (the average treatment number we currently see is 5-8 treatments) the medical team will then start the rest of the Combination Therapy – various IVs depending on symptoms, antiviral and anticoagulant treatments and in some cases HBOT, Cryo, IVIG or Hydro Colon treatments.
Very soon I will discuss the future of diagnostics and individualized Combination Therapy with a Long Covid household name that is currently being treated at our clinic and of course I will send you an email once we publish that video – it will be a very interesting discussion to say the least!
I hope you enjoy the little video we made today in the early morning and as you will see with Keelyn – one of our brave Long Covid fighters – despite everything we are all going through with this cruel and often invisible illness of Long Covid and/or Post Vac – we fight with a smile and it is much easier if we fight together and get up the ladder step by step.
多くの人にとって、私たちのような場所が存在することを知るだけで、希望が持てるのです。だから、この言葉を広める手助けをしてほしい！晴天のキプロスから、ロングコビッド・ポストバックのファイターたちに季節の挨拶を送ります。
