Importance of respiratory airway management as well as psychological and rehabilitative treatments to COVID-19 patients.

ABSTRACT: The clinical therapy for severe 2019 coronavirus disease (i.e., COVID-19) sufferers is relatively challenging. Herein, the processes involving salvage of a critical COVID-19 patient were retrospectively analyzed. The condition of an obese female critical COVID-19 sufferer progressively worsened in the initial period after admission. According to her symptoms and examination reports, endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation were timely conducted and meanwhile high-dose sedatives and analgesics were administrated. In the later therapeutic phase, however, sedative and analgesic dosages were gradually reduced, and psychological and rehabilitative therapies were conducted, concomitantly with enhancement of airway care to facilitate sputum expectoration. Eventually, the endotracheal tu

SUBMITTER: Jiang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7192120 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature