On May 17, the official account of “BASIC Critical Care Medicine” released a research report on the mid-term and long-term effects of COVID-19. The study was conducted on critically ill COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU for 2 months. And the monitoring survey within 12 months also fills the gap of the current research on the survival of critically ill patients admitted to the ICU.
Data show that surviving COVID-19 patients after two months in the ICU were 9% lower than their baseline body weight, and 13% were still receiving oxygen therapy at the 2-month visit, except for In addition, 47% of patients had a restrictive syndrome, 10% had an obstructive syndrome, 69% had reduced carbon monoxide diffusing capacity, and 56% had respiratory muscle weakness. Twenty-six percent of patients were unable to perform the 6-minute walk test due to muscle weakness.
Waiting at 12 months, surviving critically ill patients weighed 3% less than baseline, 16% reported persistent pain or dysesthesia, 16% of patients reported reduced range of motion in large joints, 27% reported changes in the appearance of the skin on the neck, and 22% reported upper respiratory symptoms such as changes in voice. An additional 65% of patients reported at least one symptom that was not present prior to admission to the ICU, and 61% of previously employed patients were able to return to work.
The results of the study showed that 12 months after recovery of COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU, the vast majority of patients reported health-related quality of life, dyspnea, and symptoms that were not present before ICU admission. Change. And a large proportion of these patients did not end up returning to work.
For the long-term impact of the new coronary pneumonia, recently, the team of Cao Bin of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital and the team of Wang Jianwei of the Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences jointly published a report in “The Lancet Respiratory Medicine” (The Lancet Respiratory Medicine). ) published a study on the 2-year follow-up results of discharged patients with COVID-19.
The findings suggest that people who have recovered from COVID-19 tend to have poorer health 2 years after their initial infection compared to the general population, suggesting that some patients take more time to fully recover. About half of those who recovered from Covid-19 still had long-term effects of Covid-19, such as fatigue and difficulty sleeping, two years after they were discharged from the hospital. Moreover, the long-term impact of new coronary pneumonia on the quality of life, exercise capacity, and mental health of the population is relatively poor, and the use of medical care services is more frequent.
Source: Health Times
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