Safety and Feasibility of an Interdisciplinary Treatment Approach to Optimize Recovery From Critical Coronavirus Disease 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Examine the safety and feasibility of a multimodal in-person or telehealth treatment program, administered in acute recovery phase for patients surviving critical coronavirus disease 2019.

Design

Pragmatic, pre-post, nonrandomized controlled trial with patients electing enrollment into one of the two recovery pathways.

Setting

ICU Recovery Clinic in an academic medical center.

Patients

Adult patients surviving acute respiratory failure due to critical coronavirus disease 2019.

Interventions

Patients participated in combined ICU Recovery clinic and 8 weeks of physical rehabilitation delivered: 1) in-person or 2) telehealth. Patients received medical care by an ICU Recovery Clinic interdisciplinary team and physical rehabilitation focused on aer

SUBMITTER: Mayer KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8378791 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature