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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 9/2005

01-09-2005 | Editorial

Long term prognosis of patients with acute Renal Failure: Is intensive care worth it?

Author: Wilfred Druml

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 9/2005

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One of the changing paradigms of modern intensive care medicine is a redirection of the major aims of intensive care therapy from a short-term to a long-term perspective: It is not only important whether the patient survives an ICU stay but what long-term prognosis, what quality of life, what functional recovery the patient has. Nevertheless, very little is known about the long-term outcome of ICU patients in general and patients with different diseases. Thus it is very welcome that an increasing number of studies are not only evaluating hospital related outcome end-points, such as ICU/hospital length of stay and survival rate, but focus on long-term prognosis and quality of life after the ICU admission (for review see [1]). …
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Metadata
Title
Long term prognosis of patients with acute Renal Failure: Is intensive care worth it?
Author
Wilfred Druml
Publication date
01-09-2005
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 9/2005
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-005-2682-5

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