A new feature has appeared. Now people measure the percentage of their CT scans and boast that they have lost that much of their lung volume forever.
In fact, something similar was studied for another 15 years in that first Asian epidemic.
There were the same "frosted glasses" and all that.
In most cases, the Chinese, who left the hospital on foot, then almost completely recovered after about a year.
If in the first months their pulmonary volumes and other indicators were reduced, then this was most likely due to severe muscle weakness. Now everyone felt it.
After covid, the legs do not walk and the lungs do not breathe. So those Chinese in the first epidemic barely exhaled into a spirometer, so their indicators were poor. They just didn't have enough muscles. A year later, almost everyone came to life, and small changes were only in the study of the diffusion of gases from the lungs into the blood.
Data has already accumulated that people who have not been admitted to intensive care are likely to recover well.
Resuscitation is getting worse. They pumped out victims with respiratory distress syndrome, in which, by definition, scars appear in the lungs.
But even among patients from intensive care (even after extracorporeal oxygenation), many have recovered quite well.
It is believed that the patients received some of the injuries not from the covid itself, but from artificial ventilation. And then they just recovered like after an injury. Because after an injury, even severely broken people are put on their feet in a year.
They say that if all those who recovered from covid on the day of discharge from the hospital were examined in the same way as on admission, then 95% would find similar changes in the lungs. But within the first year, most of the problems will most likely resolve.
It is too early to draw conclusions, but after the initial panic, it appears that people are recovering and recovering better than expected.
It is also important to understand that the percentage of damage on a tomogram does not mean as much as everyone thinks.
Yesterday I finally finished listening to the five-hour "transatlantic round table" of Russian-speaking intensiveists from different countries. So they wonder where we got so many of these gradations of lung damage in percentages. It is actually very difficult to count there. Rather, it is almost impossible to quantify with such gradations as a percentage. Dyspnea is more important.
It is clear that after discharge, shortness of breath will be more or less in many who have recovered. Even just because of muscle weakness. So live and wait for your year. It will be visible there.
