Recovery from COVID-19 can be a long process for some people. These "long-haulers" may experience symptoms such as shortness of breath, coughing and fatigue. The Post-COVID Recovery Clinic located at the Temple Lung Center may be able to help patients return to their daily activities and feel more like themselves again.
Schedule an appointment at our Post-COVID Recovery Clinic by calling 800-TEMPLE-MED (800-836-7536).
PAT MULHALL: Hello. PATIENT: Hello. PAT MULHALL: How are you? Pat Mulhall, nice to meet you.
PAT MULHALL: Recovery from COVID can be a longer process than we would like. People truly are feeling short of breath longer than we'd expect and longer than we'd hoped. These long-haulers are struggling to breathe and struggling to function. They're coughing. They're having lots of mucus every day. They're fatigued all day, and they're short of breath. What we've done is we set up this Post-COVID-19 Recovery Clinic where they're seeing a pulmonologist, somebody who's seen a lot of this COVID and knows how to treat it, who knows things to look out for that could be troublesome down the road.
DAN SALERNO: Since the beginning of the pandemic back in March, April, we were managing some of the sickest patients with COVID-19 lung failure.
PAT MULHALL: Temple Lung Center is a national leader in pulmonary medicine. We have been in a leader in dealing with COVID-19 patients since the start, since the forefront of this disease coming to the United States. We have been involved in countless clinical trials. Our Post-COVID Recovery Clinic, the focus is on the patient and getting them back to who they were before COVID changed their life.
DAN SALERNO: Our multidisciplinary team for the COVID Recovery Clinic include the physicians, pulmonary critical care from our group. We have all level of options, from pharmacological treatment.
PAT MULHALL: There's a respiratory therapist, somebody who's going to teach you how to breathe better again. We're looking at pulmonary testing. We're doing oxygen studies in clinic.
DAN SALERNO: They also help us with pulmonary rehabilitation for those patients that we send there, even for the extreme cases. We're a big lung transplant center. This is a disease that we're all learning about together. This is a disease that we've all been impacted by, even if we didn't want to. If this is you or somebody you know, it's easy to come and be seen and get an appointment. And a pulmonologist will see you and go over your concerns to help get you back to normal.
