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Some coronavirus ventilator patients taking weeks to

wake up from medically-induced comas

The cognitive effects of coronavirus is similar to those seen when patients awaken from
deep sedation after major surgery, one professor said.

By Kayla Rivas | Fox News

A significant number of “ I p e r s o n a l l y h a v e be another troubling
coronavirus patients who observed, and have had complication for patients
depended on ventilators for cases referred to me, of who are hospitalized with
long periods are taking days people with eyes-closed coronavirus.
or weeks to awake up from coma for two to three
medically induced comas, weeks. It's a big deal,” he Emery Brown, professor
one report says. told the paper. of medical engineering and
n e u r o s c i e n c e a t
“Some of these patients, One report examining the Massachusetts Institute of
we wean them down off neurological implications of Technology, likened the
sedation, take the breathing COVID-19 infections says c o g n i t i v e e ff e c t s o f
tube out and right away they the “sheer volume of those coronavirus to those seen
give us a thumbs up, or a suffering critical illness is when patients awaken from
few words,” Nicholas Schiff, likely to result in an deep sedation after major
a neurologist at Weill increased burden of long- surgery.
Cornell Medicine in New term cognitive impairment.”
York who specializes in B r o w n s a i d f a s t e r
treating disorders of In the Washington Post recoveries could be
consciousness, told the piece, experts theorized possible if doctors lower the
Washington Post. “But there causes for prolonged dosages of sedatives during
are others who are still not recoveries but also noted mechanical ventilation.
following commands and fundamental gaps in their
s t i l l n o t e x p r e s s i n g knowledge on the matter Schiff said while it's
themselves weeks later.” and said more precise certainly known that
information is necessary. prolonged sedation can
Schiff said all of his extend the time it takes for
colleagues in the field are Schiff told the paper many patients to wake up, 12 days
seeing patients with of the patients show no sign after sedation ends is “not
prolonged recovery, though of a stroke. Earlier in the typical.”
the incidence of the cases is pandemic, doctors began to
still unknown. notice that blood clots could