Abstract
Conceptual bases, elements of methodology and narrative aspects resulted from direct clinical experience – afferent to pulmonary rehabilitation in post COVID-19 patients
Highlights
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been declared as a new illness in December 2019 in Hubei Province, China and considered a pandemic by the WHO Director Generals opening remarks at the related media briefing in March 2020
Covid-19 shows a wide spectrum of symptoms, such as: fever, cough, malaise, headache, sore throat, dyspnoea, joints pain, diarrhoea, vomiting, loss of smell, and fatal pneumonia or multi-organ failure - with death occurring in the third week from the beginning of specific symptoms – and () some patients being asymptomatic [1,3,6]
The target to be achieved in pulmonary rehabilitation is to relieve symptoms such as dyspnoea, anxiety, impairment, to diminish complications, all in order to increase the patient quality of life
Summary
Conceptual bases, elements of methodology and narrative aspects resulted from direct clinical experience – afferent to pulmonary rehabilitation in post COVID-19 patients. Cristina Daia, MD, PhD, Andra Pintilie, MD, PhD student, Prof. Adrian Streinu Cercel, MD, PhD 1 “Dr Nicolae Robanescu” National Clinical Teaching Centre for Pediatric Neuropsychomotor Rehabilitation, Bucharest, Romania 2 “Prof. Dr Matei Bals” National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Bucharest, Romania. 3 “Bagdasar-Arseni” Teaching Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 4 “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
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