Some COVID-19 survivors will never recover completely from a condition known as post-ICU syndrome, doctors say. It can produce long-term disabilities from muscle wasting, organ damage, brain damage and PTSD.
Williams can feed himself now. But he's still having problems with memory and thinking.
, she says. It can produce long-term disabilities from muscle wasting, organ damage, brain damage, and PTSD. As a result,"things like walking the dog, going up a flight of stairs, doing your laundry are really, really difficult to do," she says. All that can contribute to paranoia, she says."They really think that all these efforts that we're doing in the ICU to try to save their life may be [us] trying to harm them. And so people come out of the ICU with pretty profound symptoms of PTSD sometimes."Dr. Negin Hajizadeh
As a result, many COVID-19 survivors will need months or years of rehabilitation. But a few have been able to bounce back quickly.
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