Open AccessRole of rehabilitation in a COVID-19 survivor with intensive care unit-acquired weakness: A case report
Author(s) -
Firdevs Ulutaş
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
turkish journal of physical medicine and rehabilitation :
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.235
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 2587-1250
DOI - 10.5606/tftrd.2021.7457
Subject(s) - covid-19 , weakness , rehabilitation , intensive care unit , medicine , physical medicine and rehabilitation , psychology , physical therapy , intensive care medicine , virology , surgery , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak
Intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICU-AW) is a catastrophic and debilitating clinical condition that causes generalized weakness and predisposes to adverse short- and long-term outcomes. Novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has been a global pandemic since November 2019. Each additional ICU admission for COVID-19 stresses intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital capacity. Accurately designed, timely rehabilitation procedures may reduce the patient burden of ICUs and hospitals. In this article, we describe a COVID-19 survivor who developed acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and ICU-AW. Early pulmonary rehabilitation in the ICU and long-term rehabilitation maintenance after the ICU and hospital discharge resulted in a positive outcome.