Schumacher fights a bout of pneumonia during awakening process 12 February, 2014 Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher is in the process of fighting off a bout of pneumonia during the week of his awakening from an induced coma, at Grenoble University Hospital in France. Bild reports that doctors treated the pneumonia with a course of strong antibiotics, but it is not known if the awakening process has been paused during the episode. Professor Heinz Peter Moecke, Head of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Asklepios Clinic in Hamburg, explained to Bild: 'One of the reasons he may have contracted pneumonia is because the endotracheal tube does not allow a patient to cough and rid the...
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