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Coronavirus: after being intubated, a long recovery in perspective

2020-04-01T17:30:44.372Z


Recovery after going into intensive care, long, requires care to resume normal cardiac and respiratory activity.


A patient does not go out of resuscitation on his two legs like that to go home ... Recovery is long. It requires at least nursing care and physiotherapy to resume normal cardiac and respiratory activity. After their stay in a “re-hospital”, patients are thus referred to follow-up care and rehabilitation centers (SSR). "At the end of intensive care, patients arrive with" postrea "neuropathies because the body has been immobilized for a long time, without movement and under assistance," explains Renaud Coupry, director general of La Chataigneraie, a private non-profit center at SSR, which hosts first five Covid-19 patients at its Val-d'Oise facility. “Clearly, the body no longer responds, the patients come out exhausted, they have difficulty walking, eating, swallowing, speaking, etc. We therefore need all the professions of our SRH: speech therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, neuropsychiatrists . » Patients also need a

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Source: lefigaro

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