NYU Langone pulmonologist Dr. Qanta Ahmed tells ‘Fox & Friends’ President Trump’s medical care has been ‘stellar.’
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Brian, all right
Brian all right.
President Trump is back at the
White House this morning, where
he will continue his treatment
for Covid 19,
but his doctors say hes not out
of the woods yet
here to react. Dr Qhanta Ahmed, a
pulmonologist at Nyu Langone,
you predicted the treatment as
well as when he roughly would be
out.
Are you surprised? Seventy two hours and
hes back at one thousand six hundred Pennsylvania
Avenue
im, not surprised,
and I think, thats, a reflection
of the outstanding care and very
sensible treatment planning he
has received and is still
receiving
going to. The White House does
not mean discharging him from
care.
So no im not surprised
Brian, its so nice to have this
conversation with you today
compared to when we spoke on
Friday, when it was so worrying
Brian who is Dr Conley.
Yesterday
we try to get patients home
and out of the hospital as
quickly as is safe and
reasonable.
Every day a patient stays in the
hospital unnecessarily is a risk
to themselves
and right now there is nothing
thats being done upstairs here
that we cant safely conduct
down home
Brian in the past. As you know,
doctor he had supplemental
oxygen on Friday.
He had the steroid dexamethasone
and regeneron antibody cocktail.
They say
so knowing those series of
events. What continues now that
hes back at the house of all
those three things?
Well, he will. The
regeneron is a one time dose. So
thats done
the remdesivir dosing. I think
the last dose is today that can
be given intravenously at the
White House.
Dexamethasone is usually
continued ten days, but it can be
finished earlier and taken
orally.
We can be absolutely certain. His
doctors will be watching his
blood count,
inflammatory status,
crt
kidney function, Hemoglobe Bin-
all of that will be probably
closely monitored and some form
of imaging of his lungs and how
they are responding.
This patient, the president, is
so unusually highly monitored, so
everything that he is doing in
terms of their care is
absolutely wreck. Nothing
reckless did b it
Brian, Dr Conley, the people
throwing his criticism. His way
that he is just answering to the
commander in chief instead of
his medical know how
so they dont understand the
role of a doctor.
I have every confidence in
Dr Conley
and he has a very difficult task
of being both the presidents
advocate in terms of as his
patient and also being
responsible for the president.
Getting the best possible
summation of advice.
Dr Conley would have a
responsibility to inform the
president. If you are not well
enough, you need to stay
and actually stand up for the
president,
and we often do that with our
patients.
Sometimes our patients defy us
and say no im insisting on
leaving and they sign out
against medical advice.
The president would have had an
ability to do that.
No Dr Conically not be
criticized.
He has been very unfairly
treated in the public eye,
Brian, absolutely
because his patient is the
president. His stakes are much
higher that he ensures its safe
for the president to leave, so I
think its opposite
Brian Bine. We dont note
presidents, lung.
I did find out if he wanted the
everyone to know his lung
condition. He could release it.
I understand that there is
excessive. You know interested
in the details of the
presidents health.
It is sufficient for us to see
this president can walk into a
helicopter. Come out of a
helicopter.
Go up the steps.
Can he speak in full sentences?
Is he seen very closely on
camera?
There are no signs respiratory
distress,
he hasnt coughed one time on
camera.
We have full confidence in not
only Dr Conley, who is carefully
selected and trained, and the
brilliant doctors, but the
director of Icu at Hopkins.
Is he one of the world
authorities in Covid right now?
We trust their judgment.
American physicians are amongst
the best trained in the world.
This person, the president, is
very important patient, as are
allall of our patients. We need t,
have confidence,
I wouldnt hand it to the media
hysteria of wanting every as sin
of detail on the presidents
health.
Is he functioning well and
thats sufficient for us
Brian, Dr Ahmed? We are talking
to somebody who has seen people
die, go to the hospital die alone
and does not have a problem of
the presidents message of dont.
Let it dominate you
remember that was many
months ago, and that was also
before we couldld recognize the
virus before regeneron before
remdesivir, when people had had
viral replication at home for a
very long time.
The story is entirely different.
Six months into the pandemic and
very different for the.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-17.