Editorial: Post COVID-19: analysing and addressing the challenges faced by patients following intensive care treatment for COVID-19

This Research Topic has aimed to reflect the significant consequences of the pandemic for COVID-19 survivors; therefore, it offers readers the opportunity to understand all those factors that have influenced and continue to influence patients' distress and opportunities for recovery, with the aim of best ensuring that the consequences of the pandemic do not develop into chronic injuries. The key concept throughout the Research Topic was transdisciplinarity, as reflected both in the scientific differentiation of the papers received and in the very organization of the various authors within each paper. So, given the nature of the topic, which falls between medicine, sociology, social work and psychology, it was possible to obtain a more comprehensive assessment of the complexity of the current situation (Auriemma et al., 2023). Although the health perspective focuses primarily on understanding the physiological aspects of COVID-19, it was possible to capture, through the papers presented, the different ways in which patients were able to restore their wellbeing not only physiologically, but also socially, especially through the support they received from medical professionals as many papers describe and from local health services after discharge from intensive care units (ICUs).