Dr Sergio Alfieri, the head of medicine and surgery at Gemelli hospital, said: ‘Sepsis, with his respiratory problems and his age, would be really difficult to get out of.
Pope Francis is in a critical condition after he had an asthmatic respiratory crisis in hospital, the Vatican medical team said.
The hospital’s head of medicine and surgery, Dr Sergio Alfieri, said the pope ‘knows he’s in danger.’.
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Pope Francis was prescribed ‘absolute rest’ along with cortisone and antibiotics and supplemental oxygen when needed, according to the news agency.
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