After more than two years of pandemic and the care of more than 100,000 patients in intensive care whose life prognosis was endangered by a serious form of Covid-19, the medium-term consequences and the sequelae that these patients can endure remain. too little known to the general public.
Over the past few decades, the vital prognosis of intensive care patients has improved significantly.
Mortality has decreased, particularly for serious and frequent pathologies in intensive care such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and depending on the pathologies, 70 to 90% of patients survive.
Those suffering from Covid-19 have benefited from this progress.
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But this growing number of survivors has also raised awareness of the impact of a long-term stay in intensive care.
It is now clearly established that these patients present with various sequelae affecting their quality of life, grouped together under the term “post-resuscitation syndrome”.
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