Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU

Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU

A world-renowned critical care doctor offers hope for ICU patients and their families in this timely, urgent, and compassionate narrative. Over the next ten years, 40 to 60 million people in this country will be admitted... read more

The Effect of ICU Diaries on PTSD, Anxiety, and Depression

The Effect of ICU Diaries on PTSD, Anxiety, and Depression

Providing an ICU diary to patients admitted to the ICU reduced the rate of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms compared with usual care. We included 7 RCTs. Patients who received a diary during the ICU admission... read more

Majority of Family Members of COVID-19 Patients Treated in the ICU Report PTSD Symptoms

Majority of Family Members of COVID-19 Patients Treated in the ICU Report PTSD Symptoms

A majority of family members of COVID-19 patients treated in ICUs reported significant symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in the following months, according to a study published Monday that sheds new light on the... read more

Cognitive Dysfunction, Psychiatric Distress, and Functional Decline After COVID-19

Cognitive Dysfunction, Psychiatric Distress, and Functional Decline After COVID-19

At approximately 4 months after acute illness, cognitive dysfunction, emotional distress, and functional decline were common among a diverse clinical sample of COVID-19 survivors varying in acute illness severity. Patients... read more

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors in pregnancy

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors in pregnancy

This position statement provides guidance for the monitoring, care, and follow-up of newborns exposed to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) or serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) in utero. Depression... read more

Psychological burden in patients with COVID-19 and their relatives 90 days after hospitalization

Psychological burden in patients with COVID-19 and their relatives 90 days after hospitalization

COVID-19 is linked to clinically relevant psychological distress in a subgroup of patients and their relatives 90 days after hospitalization. If confirmed in an independent and larger patient cohort, knowledge about these... read more

Bodily Pain in Survivors of ARDS

Bodily Pain in Survivors of ARDS

Nearly half of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) survivors reported bodily pain at 6- and 12-month follow-up; one-third reported pain at both time points. Pre-ARDS unemployment, smoking history, and in-ICU opioid... read more

ICU-specific Virtual Reality for Psychological Recovery After ICU COVID-19 Treatment

ICU-specific Virtual Reality for Psychological Recovery After ICU COVID-19 Treatment

A substantial number of ICU survivors are expected due to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, who are at risk for psychological impairments, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression. We designed a COVID-19... read more

People with long-COVID at high risk of ongoing mental health issues

People with long-COVID at high risk of ongoing mental health issues

People living with long-COVID are at significant risk of experiencing depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to research published in the European Respiratory Journal. The research is one of the... read more

Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression

Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression

This book brings together an international group of clinicians and researchers from a broad swath of inter-related disciplines to offer the most up-to-date information about clinical and preclinical research into ketamine... read more

Consequences of COVID-19 in discharged patients

Consequences of COVID-19 in discharged patients

At 6 months after acute infection, COVID-19 survivors were mainly troubled with fatigue or muscle weakness, sleep difficulties, and anxiety or depression. Patients who were more severely ill during their hospital stay... read more

Perspectives of Ketamine Use in COVID-19 Patients

Perspectives of Ketamine Use in COVID-19 Patients

Hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-infected patients suffer from both physical impairments and mental stress. Respiratory insufficiency and cardiovascular disturbances require most of the intensive care... read more

Communication Strategy for Families of Patients Dying in the ICU

Communication Strategy for Families of Patients Dying in the ICU

Providing relatives of patients who are dying in the ICU with a brochure on bereavement and using a proactive communication strategy that includes longer conferences and more time for family members to talk may lessen the... read more

Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World

Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World

The book we need NOW to avoid a social recession, Murthy’s prescient message is about the importance of human connection, the hidden impact of loneliness on our health, and the social power of community. Humans are social... read more