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Barcelona, Spain) – After almost two months of anesthesia and intravenous catheterization in the hospital’s intensive care unit, Francisco España went out for a moment to fill his sick lungs with fresh air on a beach in Barcelona.
Lying in a hospital bed on the boardwalk, surrounded by a doctor and three nurses constantly monitoring his vital signs, Spain briefly closed his eyes and took in as much sunlight as possible.
A medical team from Hospital Del Mar is studying whether short trips to the beach across the street can help Corona patients after long periods of stay in the intensive care unit.
Dr. Judith Marron said it was part of the intensive care unit “humanization” program that the group had been testing for two years before the Corona virus struck Spain.
“It is important to consider the emotional well-being of patients and try to work on it in the early stages of their recovery,” he added.
Since the program was re-accredited in early June, doctors have confirmed that spending ten minutes on the beach will improve the patient’s well-being. The team wants to take this anecdotal evidence further and find out if such trips abroad can aid in the medium and long-term recovery of Corona patients.
Spain (60 years old), who works in a local market and has a passion for music, said her memories of 52 days in intensive care were “blurry.”
“They say I overcame something really great.” The sight of a hospital bed under palm trees in the park by the Mediterranean Sea caught the attention of passersby, and the trip to the beach of the man known to his friends as “Baku” was a good sign.
“Let’s see if I can now bring beer to the hospital,” he joked before returning to the intensive care unit.
“He couldn’t speak and was breathing hard, he was suffocating,” said Xavi Matute, an old friend who was with Spain when an ambulance took him to the hospital. Hooch returned to see his friend and told him everything he had missed.
