Post-covid syndrome affects muscles of ICU patients

The rehabilitation of patients who survived Covid-19, after intensive care, is necessary to overcome the neurological complications of the disease: this is confirmed by a study carried out in the Covid Resuscitation of the Careggi University Hospital of Florence published in the scientific journal “Acta Neurologica Scandinavian “. “During the first pandemic phase we assessed the condition of about 150 patients – explains Dr. Antonello Grippo, head of Careggi’s Neurophysiopathology – They were ventilated in resuscitation due to both Covid and other pathologies and we found in equal measure, in about the 70 percent of cases, the presence of neuromyopathy, a condition of extreme widespread muscle weakness, detected by examining the transmission of electrical impulses that the brain sends to the muscles to allow movement. These patients at risk of post-covid syndrome show at discharge, greater difficulty in resuming breathing normally, without the help of the ventilator “.” We have seen how the neuromyopathy of the critically ill patient – adds Dr. Adriano Peris, director of the Covid intensive care of the Careggi company – is a frequent complication in people severely affected by the coronavirus and this leads to pay more and more attention to the interviews both respiratory and muscular rehabilitation bodies, which have proved to be useful in allowing effective recovery, avoiding the persistence of conditions of motor disability, one of the most disabling consequences of the post-Covid Syndrome “.