![]() Here, we describe our organisation of this type of unit and our first feedback from its functioning, based on the experience in a French tertiary care university hospital. According to other physical medicine and rehabilitation societies worldwide, early evaluation and rehabilitation for these patients is mandatory. There is a growing need for ventilator weaning units that could help ICUs discharge ventilator-dependent patients with stable disease and no other organ failure but respiratory or neurological features. New cases and especially severe ones are increasing exponentially following a similar evolution in Italy, with a risk of ICU saturation in many French regions. Reports from Italy warned of the risk of ICU bed shortage. On March 23rd, 2020 in France, 2082 of 19,856 confirmed cases of COVID-19 needed intensive care. Median length of hospital stay was 12 days, but patients with severe disease may remain in intensive care units (ICUs) for 2 to 3 weeks, and survival time for non-survivors has been reported to be 1 to 2 weeks. Data from China reported up to 6% of patients overall and 71% with severe COVID-19 requiring mechanical ventilation. ![]() ![]() The unprecedented outbreak of the novel coronavirus (nCoV-19 or SARS-CoV-2), that emerged in Wuhan, China, in 2019 and spread all over Europe and the world, has forced French hospitals to reorganise and admit a large number of critically ill patients in a short period of time.
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