Covid icu no response

[Ashleyjo5]

My dad has Covid and is currently in icu they have taken him off the sedation and paralytics he’s been off 6 days of sedation and 7 for the paralytic and still not response. He is on dialysis for his kidneys and vent at 100% for lungs he does have fluid and pneumonia followed with a staph infection to too it all off... anyone else have info on not responding and just some general expense? He is unable to get a cat scan cause he is unable to be off the 100% vent to which to a mobile to be transported to the scan. Thanks for any advise!

[Ferham]

Hi Ashleyjo5 and welcome

If you search this site for Covid19, you will come across several stories of your fathers position from the 1st wave.

I'm really sorry you are going through it, it's a traumatic roller coaster for you. As your dad has had kidney issues, they do tend to be slower to respond and be alert. He has been very heavily sedated and it takes it's time to come out of the system.

It's quite common to pick up infections in ITU, my husband picked up several whilst he was ventilated with covid in the 1st wave .

His Kidney issues thankfully were mild, but it took him over a week to start to come round.

Please take comfort many Covid survivors have been where your dad is now.

[Ashleyjo5 in reply to Ferham]

Thank you for the information! I really appreciate it.

[Sepsur]

Hi @Ashleyjo5

I took 11 days to come around properly although I was responsive before then ( we are all different) different people respond differently - without labouring the point. Dialysis will slow down the body’s ability to process out the paralysing agents used to sedate us. Some people have unique tolerances to chemicals. Depending on the various treatments that your Dad has endured, a person maybe placed into a deeper state of unconsciousness - if he were proned for instance.

Infections might slow down his normal healing time too, and @Fenharm is right / infections in ICU are fairly common because we have no immune system to fight them off. I got CMV, VRE, MSSA, EBV, HHV6 & glandular fever whilst in ICU, I’d come in with strep A, avian flu, double pneumonia, MOF, and in septic shock.

I hope he shows some signs of improvement soon, for you.

[Ashleyjo5 in reply to Sepsur]

Thank you for the information... glad your recovered! Pray your doing well. This is just a scary thing to deal with so any insight is nice!

[Cazthomp]

It has taken my mum a good 2 weeks to come round she has had her trachy out this morning finally. They said to us it takes much longer if the kidneys aren’t working for the sedation to get out of the system keep hopeful xxx

[Ashleyjo5 in reply to Cazthomp]

Thank you for sharing that makes me hopeful hear you mom took a little while to come out of the sedation too... today the nurses said he had some grimacing on his face when they were bathing him and cleaning his mouth! So that’s movement we didn’t have before!

[Cazthomp in reply to Ashleyjo5]

That’s exactly what my mum did she had really sore eyes and the first thing she did was scree up her face when they wiped them that was the first signs of her waking keep strong you will get there x

[Mijmijkey74]

How is your Dad doing now? I hope for your dad and for you there has been a positive outcome and incredibly sorry it there wasn't. x