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01-09-2018 | Editorial

Should ICU clinicians follow patients after ICU discharge? No

Authors: Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan, Xavier Willaert, Brian H. Cuthbertson

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 9/2018

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Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) describes new or worsening impairments of physical, cognitive or mental health resulting from an episode of critical illness and its treatment and lasting after discharge from the intensive care unit (ICU) [1]. The incidence of PICS varies based on the domain impacted, ranging from up to 25% for physical and cognitive and up to 60% for psychiatric disturbances [2, 3]. Even as we continue to make significant impact on mortality, short- and long-term consequences of survivorship are emerging as the new frontier. …

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Title: Should ICU clinicians follow patients after ICU discharge? No
Authors: Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan
Xavier Willaert
Brian H. Cuthbertson
Publication date: 01-09-2018
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 9/2018
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5117-9

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