Isala lets employees speak about their experiences during the corona crisis. This time, among others, rehabilitation doctor Ard ten Hoff who has come to a striking insight. The elderly who ended up in ICU and who already had health problems before a corona infection are doing relatively well. “Often better than with the younger, previously healthy people who went into home quarantine with corona symptoms.”
According to Ten Hoff, there is a clear dichotomy in the recovery. ‘On the one hand, the group of elderly patients, who sometimes developed a corona infection on top of other health problems and ended up on a ventilator in ICU. Many of them are now doing surprisingly well again. It is precisely this group of young people who went into home quarantine with corona symptoms, who still struggles with all kinds of complaints months later. People who were vital to the infection, for whom a block is still too much. A separate outpatient clinic has now also been set up for that group. ‘
Too weak to eat
Almost all of the IC patients have completed a process consisting of hospitalization, an IC admission with one to four weeks of ventilation and medication. ‘Many then followed a relatively short rehabilitation process in this region, for example at Zonnehuis, IJsselheem or Vogellanden. We also heard from there that people recovered relatively quickly after takeover. The first days patients were still too weak to eat themselves and within a week and a half they were already able to walk independently across the corridor, ‘says Isala’s rehabilitation doctor.
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