Post-intensive Care Follow-up of Patients Hospitalized for an Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Caused by COVID-19

Many studies have showed that ARDS survivors keep, even a long time after hospitalization, a functional respiratory disability, resulting on one hand from impaired diffusion of carbon monoxide, and on the other hand from a muscular weakness. Indeed, 67% of patients ventilated more than 10 days have a neuromyopathy whose recovery is uncertain.

Beside this, Long-term quality of life is worse than in general population, due in particular to depressive and anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic syndrome disorder with a prevalence around 22% after one year.

The follow-up will consist in phone call with an intensive care doctor. These visits would be the opportunity to screen the complications after intensive-care with, find solutions to cure them or decrease their impact on patient's life to improve quality of life and prevent the post-traumatic syndrome disorder PTSD. A review would be sent to the patients' General Practitioners at the end of each visit.

Inclusion criteria

• adult patient
• hospitalized in intensive care of the CHU anesthesia-intensive care unit (Rangueil, URM, Neurosurgery)
• intubated and ventilated
• supported for an ARDS according to the Berlin criteria (PaO2 / FiO2 ratio <300 mmHg)
• with an rt-PCR positive to SARS-CoV-2
• affiliated to the french social security

Exclusion criteria

• minor patient
• patient under protective measure
• ARDS in the pandemic context but rt-PCR negative to SARS-CoV-2