Result of one-year, prospective follow-up of intensive care unit survivors after SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Survivors of viral ARDS are at risk of long-term physical, functional and neuropsychological complications resulting from the lung injury itself, but also from potential multiorgan dysfunction, and the long stay in the intensive care unit (ICU). Recovery profiles after severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia in intensive care unit survivors have yet to be clearly defined.

Material and methods

The goal of this single-center, prospective, observational study was to systematically evaluate pulmonary and extrapulmonary function at 12 months after a stay in the ICU, in a prospectively identified cohort of patients who survived SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia. Eligible patients were assessed at 3, 6 and 12 months after onset of SARS-CoV-2. Patients underwent physical examination, pulmonary

SUBMITTER: Eberst G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8905558 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature