Surviving Covid Was Just the Beginning of the Battle

Hi, it’s Jason in Melbourne. The Covid-19 pandemic held many surprises. An early one for me was the post-traumatic stress disorder that critically ill patients frequently experience. But before I get into that…

Early in the pandemic, an intensive-care physician in Sydney told me that PTSD was one of the little-recognized consequences of critical illness, especially for patients who need mechanical ventilation because of acute respiratory distress. It sounded ghastly.