I just got done watching Dopesick (about Oxycontin) which is essential viewing btw...
It made me look in my cupboard because I remember being given opiates after the rebuild of my ankle with a titanium insert. I found that I'd been given 20x5mg of Oxycodone which is functionally the same but without the slow release feature. I took only 11 pills out of the 20 I was given because I know that stuff is bad news and switched myself to over the counter pills.
Anyone in ICU is probably going to receive something that messes with their head in a significant way...
I just looked at that study! 100% mechanical ventilation!!! That means complete sedation for days!!! I can't imagine anyone being impaired 5.5 days after surviving that.
Guess I'll have to check it out. I've heard a lot about the opioid crisis to know to stay away. My dad was given opioids against his will (so I understood) and I don't understand how he's OK with it in retrospect.
I agree entirely, that and the Brazilian study both had 100% mechanical ventilation (some other studies had 50, 30% etc) but I see that their numbers aren't TOO high compared to the rest. So in theory, they shouldn't skew the results too much, but it's still a travesty that these studies got pooled in.
I really have to sit down and go over the meta-analysis properly, maybe they divided long covid outcomes dependent on how severe the covid was to begin with and I just missed it.