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Psychiatrists across the city say survivors of Covid-19, particularly those who had severe cases, may suffer mental health issues while rehabilitating, after recovering from the infection.

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After the ICU, coronavirus patients need rehab facilities and staff to get them back to normal functioning, if they even can — the U.S. is short on both.

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New research has found that the novel coronavirus can affect a variety of bodily systems in addition to the lungs. As a result, survivors may have to deal with a wide range of ailments long after the virus has passed.

It can take 6 weeks or longerTrusted Source for patients in critical condition to fully recover, the World Health Organization reported.

Those who were treated in the ICU may need help gaining mobility again even after the virus has left their system.

Even those never hospitalized for COVID-19 may need to go to rehab to help their injured lungs recover.

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After experiencing shortness of breath, coughing and fevers, Sharon Tapp learned she had COVID-19. As her health worsened, doctors admitted her to the hospital. For the next 117 days she stayed, undergoing treatment for COVID-19 complications. She has finally returned home but faces weeks of therapy before she fully recovers. Still, she feels grateful to be home.

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ROCKVILLE, Md., July 28, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- With cognitive impairment, swallowing problems, and speech and language difficulties among the conditions that patients with COVID-19 reportedly face as they recover from the virus, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) emphasizes the need for and value of treatment services provided by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) at a critical point in the pandemic as cases spike nationwide.

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Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARSCoV-2 virus. The majority of diagnosed cases, about 80 per cent, are either asymptomatic or suffer from mild symptoms, and 20 per cent of diagnosed patients have symptoms of varying severity requiring hospitalisation, while 5 per cent of these hospitalised patients are critically ill and require admission to the ICU. Critically ill patient have bilateral pneumonia, respiratory distress, multiple organ failure and clot formation.

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COVID-19 conference Highlights: Much liked global transmission, borderless exchange of information, ideas, experiences crucially important

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When Navy Veteran Ralph Gervasio Jr. was admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Nashville VA Medical Center in 2017 for acute respiratory failure, he didn’t know that his road to recovery would be one of the most difficult times in his life.

Well into his 60s, the Vietnam War Veteran had maintained a life-long strength and fitness regimen. But after three weeks in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Gervasio faced the effects of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS).

“I can attest to the physical aspect of PICS. I had lost nearly 30 pounds and much of my muscle mass. As a result, I couldn’t curl a 30-pound weight even once.”

Like Gervasio, many critically ill patients experience stressful situations that may cause them to develop problems related to their time in the ICU. It’s a struggle that Kelly Drumright, a clinical nurse leader at the Nashville VA Medical Center, is working to fix.

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Some good things may yet emerge from the current Covid-19 pandemic in our country not least because of the relative openness in the councils of government trying to inform the people about the current trends of thinking, but also by keeping the issue alive in the public consciousness for such a sustained period of time. Never before in the history of health administration in our country has the government been so visible in the lives of the people. And while the pandemic continues to ravage many communities around the world, we can, at least, sit back a bit and survey where we have come from and look at some of the consequences of what we have been forced to do. Before the onset of the novel coronavirus infections in Nigeria, the entire nation had less than 350 intensive care unit (ICU) beds and ventilators among all the teaching hospitals, federal medical centres and private medical facilities around the country. By contrast, we saw how the UK built NHS Nightingale, a 4,000-bed ICU hospital facility dedicated to the treatment of Covid-19 patients in just nine days. So that in one hospital in England, not in that entire country, there were ten times more ICU beds than in the whole of Nigeria, and for a population less than one-third as large.

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Once COVID-19 patients leave the intensive care unit and bed rest, they’ll likely need physical therapy to return to “normal” life.

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One thing that didn't make to the spotlight in this Covid-19 pandemic is a question that what happens to the Covid-19 patients after they are discharged from the critical care? A common assumption around the world is that once a patient is discharged from the hospital and is tested negative the problem is resolved. This may be based on a relative lack of information and knowledge, even among the health care professionals, regarding a condition described as Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (Pics).

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The unpredictability and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic; the associated lockdowns, physical distancing, and other containment strategies; and the resulting economic breakdown could increase the risk of mental health problems and exacerbate health inequalities. Preliminary findings suggest adverse mental health effects in previously healthy people and especially in people with pre-existing mental health disorders. Despite the heterogeneity of worldwide health systems, efforts have been made to adapt the delivery of mental health care to the demands of COVID-19. Mental health concerns have been addressed via the public mental health response and by adapting mental health services, mostly focusing on infection control, modifying access to diagnosis and treatment, ensuring continuity of care for mental health service users, and paying attention to new cases of mental ill health and populations at high risk of mental health problems. Sustainable adaptations of delivery systems for mental health care should be developed by experts, clinicians, and service users, and should be specifically designed to mitigate disparities in health-care provision. Thorough and continuous assessment of health and service-use outcomes in mental health clinical practice will be crucial for defining which practices should be further developed and which discontinued. For this Position Paper, an international group of clinicians, mental health experts, and users of mental health services has come together to reflect on the challenges for mental health that COVID-19 poses. The interconnectedness of the world made society vulnerable to this infection, but it also provides the infrastructure to address previous system failings by disseminating good practices that can result in sustained, efficient, and equitable delivery of mental health-care delivery. Thus, the COVID-19 pandemic could be an opportunity to improve mental health services.