A comprehensive physical functional assessment of survivors of critical care unit stay due to COVID-19.
Marcia Souza VolpeAna Carolina Cardoso Dos SantosSílvia GasparJade Lara de MeloGabriela HaradaPatrícia Rocha Alves FerreiraKarina Ramiceli Soares da SilvaNatália Tiemi Simokomaki SouzaCarlos ToufenLuciana Dias ChiavegatoMarcelo Britto Passos AmatoMaria Ignez Zanetti FeltrimCarlos Roberto Ribeiro de CarvalhoPublished in: Critical care science (2024)
Patients who recovered from critical COVID-19 and who received invasive mechanical ventilation presented greater disability than those who were not invasively ventilated. However, they both showed marginal functional improvement during early recovery, regardless of the need for invasive mechanical ventilation. This might highlight the severity of disability caused by SARS-CoV-2.