Thread by @WesElyMD

1/🧵 Brain + Body damage in #COVID & Critical Illness
 
Sepsis -bacterial, viral, fungal- can cause rapid-onset #dementia. Finishing this test should be easy at her age but Millions of brain cells are damaged!

Protect yourself & others: #Vaxx + #Mask

H/T @trishla_17 for helping

https://twitter.com/weselymd/status/1476328803588845568

2/ Our brain depends on a delicate balance of blood flow, nutrients & oxygen. When someone gets critically ill w #Covid or from other causes, that balance is dramatically disrupted. Small blood clots, dropping oxygen levels cause 🧠 damage.

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3/ It’s odd to me that people don’t see severe COVID as a form of VIRAL SEPSIS. Sepsis is when infection of any kind causes your organs to begin to fail – lungs, brain, heart, kidneys.  It’s EXACTLY what we see day-in day-out in the COVID ICU.
 
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4/ Of ICU patients with #COVID, about 80% have sepsis, 90% have #ARDS, and 20% of ward patients with COVID get admitted to the ICU. Death Certificates should include “Viral Sepsis caused by Coronavirus.”

5/ #LongCOVID patients who were in the ICU will also have #PICS. So learn about the dementia, PTSD, depression, and physically disabling disease that plagues survival after COVID. The overall burden of the pandemic is staggering.

Read up…
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6/fin
There is #HOPE for ICU survivors. If they work diligently with Physical and Occupational Therapists and do cognitive rehabilitation as well. Brain and body function will be optimized on the back-end to restore quality of life.

Of course, prevention via #Vaxx #Mask is best.