Health
Coronavirus survivors face a long road ahead – Gatton Star
While lucky to be alive, coronavirus patients leaving intensive care have, as one veteran nurse puts it, “years of hard slog” ahead.
The COVID-19 patients who make it out of intensive care will face years of life-altering obstacles.
So too will the medical staff who helped them survive.
Coronavirus is like nothing they have had to cope with before.
Experienced intensive care specialists usually have a very good idea of whether a patient is going to survive as they arrive in the Royal Melbourne Hospital’s sixth-floor ICU, and set their care and family’s expectations accordingly.
COVID-19 is different.
Whereas the average …
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