ICU sedation, delirium & recovery
One-Year Recovery Among Survivors of Prolonged Severe COVID-19: A National Multicenter Cohort
Authors' conclusion
Nearly two-thirds of survivors of among the most prolonged severe COVID-19 illness had persistent impairments at 1 year that resembled post-intensive care syndrome after critical illness plus debility from hospital-acquired complications.
Study context
- Population
- Hospitalized English-speaking adults transferred to one of nine long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) in the US for prolonged severe COVID-19 (March 2020–February 2021) who survived 1 yearof 282 potentially eligible
- Participants
- 156 adults
- Outcome
- Persistent impairments (validated instruments) among survivors
- Follow-up
- 1 year
Methodological detailsnational, multicentre
- National
- Multicentre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Persistent impairment
- Any persistent impairment
- 64%
- Physical impairment
- 57%
- Respiratory impairment
- 49%
- On supplemental oxygen
- 19%
- Psychiatric impairment
- 24%
- Cognitive impairment
- 15%
- Two or more impairment types
- 47%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Return to usual health, home and work · 1 year
- Not returning to usual health
- 78.7%
- Returned home
- 99%
- Previously employed returned to work
- 60%
Hospital-acquired complications
- Persistent debility from hospital-acquired complications, incl. mononeuropathies and pressure ulcers
Original publication
One-Year Recovery Among Survivors of Prolonged Severe COVID-19: A National Multicenter Cohort. Crit Care Med. Published 10 April 2024. doi:10.
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