This happens to your body on a fan
The rescue device, explained.
In severe cases of respiratory diseases such as COVID-19, patients can be placed on a fan, a process that is their best hope for survival. "A fan takes back the work of breathing when you have trouble breathing enough oxygen or breathe enough carbon dioxide," explainsLeann Poston, MD, a doctor with Invigor Medical in New York. "It allows a higher concentration of oxygen to be given to the lungs. You may need a fan if you work so hard to breathe that you do not have enough energy available to combat infection or recover D 'a sickness." Although this mechanical respiratory assistance can be saved, it can also be physically traumatic. Here is what happens to your body on a fan.
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You can feel a muscular weakness
"The longer a patient on a fan, the more there will be a muscle failure and atrophy." SaidTaylor Graber, MD, a anesthesiologist reside in San Diego. "Once a patient is extinguished and they are released from the fan, it is very common that there is a weakness or a significant exhaustion, which requires physical therapy and rehabilitation for days, weeks or months. potentially to recover. "
You will need to take care of your epidermis
"The dry skin to be in the ICU environment can occur. The hair may fall due to the stress of the disease and bruising can occur to have several IVS during your hospitalization," saidSeema sarin, MD, Deputy Medical Director of Ehe Health. "These take time to cure, but have adequate nutrition, handle stress, exercise, moisturize your skin with moisturizer and drink a lot of fluids can help."
You feel pain
"Patients are often painful in their coast and in the abdomen," saysWilliam Lynes, MD, a urologist in Temecula, California. "They may have had to have thoracic tubes placed because of collapsed lungs, and these are very uncomfortable."
It's a foreign experience
"This makes the patient breathes his schedule and the natural tendency for the patient is to fight the fan," says Lynes. "This is why high doses of narcotics or sedatives are necessary and often paralyzing agents to allow the fan to breathe the patient."
You can experience the psychosis of the ICU
"When in the ICU, and especially on a fan, a mental anxiety is very long associated with the one that lasts a very long time," says Lynes. "I had horrible dreams, dreams and demonic visions on the fan who are still 22 years later, fresh in my mind. The psychosis of the ICU is caused by many factors of the ICU. The drugs used, the deprivation of circadian time / rhythm and the disease all contribute. "
You can have damage caused by the vocal cord
"The tube can damage your vocal cords," saysAmy Baxter, MD, a pedicric emergency doctor and pain researcher. "I had a note that I could not sing for a year. Other people can have permanent voice changes." After the instructions from your doctor, put your voice and drink plenty of water can help you recover, says Sarin.
You are exhausted
"The body and the mind are exhausted. Mentionally, you have been on sedatives or paralytic agents to relax your mind and body," saysJacob Delarosa, MD, Head of Cardiac and Endovascular Surgery at the Medical Center of Porteruf in Pocatello, Idaho. "Your body has been pushed and drawn all the senses of medical staff because you have not been able to do these movements."
What's happening next?
"The fan is a process called" withdrawal test "where the patient undergoes a spontaneous respiratory test for 30 to 120 minutes," says Dr. Daren Newfield ofAICA orthopedics. "This process can take several days, in some weeks situations, before the patient has returned to normal and feel good."
"Focusing on positive facts, as if you have survived through a serious illness, it is important to keep in mind during the moment of recovery," says Mary Dale Peterson, MD , President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
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