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).
不过，在治疗开始之前，还需要进行大量的后勤工作和准备工作。
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.
最初的供应品大多是空运来的，从生产设施到温度引导物流再到冷却储存，需要不断地进行冷却。
大约在处理前一小时，必须准备好 30 千克的液体（氯化钠、醋酸盐、碳酸氢盐、硫酸头孢）以及管道、吸附器和过滤器，并将其连接起来，然后需要对机器进行冲洗、测试和准备，并进行多次机械自检，以检查所有泵、夹具、传感器和电子设备是否 100% 准确和正常工作（此过程称为启动）。
完成这些工作后，机器就准备就绪，处于待机状态等待您的到来。您到达后，护士会为您接上穿刺针或穿刺导管，然后开始治疗，治疗时间约为 2.5 小时。在这 2.5 个小时里，您可以舒适地坐在全自动、超级舒适的仿生床椅上，您可以通过遥控器调整和改变床椅的各个方面和角度。
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.
对于许多人来说，只要知道有像我们这样的地方存在，就能给他们带来希望。因此，请帮助我们传播信息！从阳光明媚的塞浦路斯向那里的长科维德和后真空战士们致以节日的问候，马库斯
