Tag: PICS
Critical Illness, Disability, and the Road Home
Ability to participate in the community is an important outcome for all patients after a major illness, it signposts reaching the end of the road home. A patient's ability to return to the priority tasks of daily living impacts... read more
Perspectives of Survivors, Families and Researchers on Key Outcomes for Research in ARF
There is heterogeneity among the outcomes evaluated in studies of survivors of acute respiratory failure (ARF). Patient, family and researcher groups supported inclusion of outcome domains that fit within the PICS framework.... read more
Muscle Mass and Physical Recovery in ICU: Innovations for targeting of Nutrition and Exercise
New innovative techniques are demonstrating promise to target recovery from PICS utilizing a combination of objective LBM and metabolic assessment, targeted nutrition interventions, personalized exercise interventions for... read more
Assessment of Post-ICU Functional Outcome
Poor functional status is common after critical illness, and can adversely impact intensive care unit (ICU) survivors’ abilities to live independently. Instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), which encompass complex... read more
THRIVE Developments
The THRIVE initiative is proud to announce the selection of 10 institutions to a new Post Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Clinic Collaborative. The purpose of the THRIVE Post ICU Clinic Collaborative is to build an international... read more
