Turin, Apr. 24 (LaPresse) – Elsa, the 15-year-old from Biella injured in the New Year’s fire in Crans-Montana, has been discharged from the CTO hospital in Turin. The young girl had arrived by helicopter from Zurich last February. “Since she arrived we have had to deal with truly dramatic complications and we overcame them thanks to everyone’s work. This is the strength of a burns center like ours, where in addition to anesthesiologists and plastic surgeons we involved general surgeons, psychologists, psychiatrists, gastroenterologists, dietitians, physiatrists and physiotherapists, nephrologists, speech therapists, a huge number of specialists who have worked in the center to follow Elsa and the other patients. At this moment we are happy to say that the acute phase, the life-threatening phase, has been overcome and now the outcomes phase begins,” explained the director of the Major Burns Center, Massimo Navissano, during a press conference in which Elsa’s discharge was announced. The young girl, who left intensive care after 58 days, will be transferred to the Regina Margherita children’s hospital in the Piedmont capital for a few weeks. “We decided to transfer Elsa to a temporary pediatric facility before returning home, as an intermediate step. So that the transition from intensive and sub-intensive care to home is gentler and less dramatic, but we will continue to follow her and she will return to us in the future to be monitored for scars, for treatment, for everything that begins for a burn patient once the first phase has ended,” Navissano added.
Crans-Montana, 15-year-old Elsa leaves intensive care in Turin
Turin, Apr. 24 (LaPresse) – Elsa, the 15-year-old from Biella injured in the New Year’s fire in Crans-Montana, has been discharged from the CTO hospital in Turin. The young girl had arrived by helicopter from Zurich last February. “Since she arrived we have had to deal with truly dramatic complications and we overcame them thanks to everyone’s work. This is the strength of a burns center like ours, where in addition to anesthesiologists and plastic surgeons we involved general surgeons, psychologists, psychiatrists, gastroenterologists, dietitians, physiatrists and physiotherapists, nephrologists, speech therapists, a huge number of specialists who have worked in the center to follow Elsa and the other patients. At this moment we are happy to say that the acute phase, the life-threatening phase, has been overcome and now the outcomes phase begins,” explained the director of the Major Burns Center, Massimo Navissano, during a press conference in which Elsa’s discharge was announced. The young girl, who left intensive care after 58 days, will be transferred to the Regina Margherita children’s hospital in the Piedmont capital for a few weeks. “We decided to transfer Elsa to a temporary pediatric facility before returning home, as an intermediate step. So that the transition from intensive and sub-intensive care to home is gentler and less dramatic, but we will continue to follow her and she will return to us in the future to be monitored for scars, for treatment, for everything that begins for a burn patient once the first phase has ended,” Navissano added.
