Tag: recovery
Early Mobility in ICU: From Patient to Physician
In the ICU, motion means life. Dr. Paul Wischmeyer, Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery, Duke University gives an overview of the challenges associated with early mobility in ICU, and the importance of implementing protocols.... read more
Early Mobilization of Patients in ICU
Currently there is a divide between ICU clinicians who wish to implement early mobilization based on current evidence and clinicians who believe that early mobilization is an intervention that should be tested in a large... read more
Establishing a Relationship of Trust and Care
An admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) is often a traumatic experience for both patients and families. Although members of the critical care team are specially trained to provide care and treatment requiring close,... read more
Virtual Reality to Improve Cognitive Alterations in ICU
More than 30 percent of patients who survive an episode of critical illness presents brain alterations that go beyond those of the disease that has led to the admission to intensive care (ICU). As a result of this cerebral... read more
ICU-Acquired Weakness and Recovery from Critical Illness
Kress and Hall propose that rehabilitation of critically ill patients should begin in the ICU. The authors name sepsis, systemic inflammation, multiorgan failure, hyperglycemia, glucocorticoid use, and female sex as risk... read more
Pediatric Patient and Family Perspective on Pediatric ICU Experience & Survivorship
In this video a 7-year old who spent 662 days in the PICU after a severe burn injury requiring ECMO sits down with her parents to detail their journey with critical illness and recovery during the 6th Annual Johns Hopkins... read more
Survival and Safety Outcomes of ICU Patients Discharged Directly Home
Recruited discharged directly to home patients experienced very good 8-week postdischarge outcomes with 0% mortality and a low rate of ICU readmission (1%) or ward readmission (4%), but not an insignificant rate of emergency... read more
Critical Care Pharmacists and Medication Management in an ICU Recovery Center
Many patients experience complications following critical illness; these are now widely referred to as post-intensive care syndrome (PICS). An interprofessional intensive care unit (ICU) recovery center (ICU-RC), also known... read more
What Role Do Dogs Play in ICUs?
Dr. Megan Hosey PhD speaks about how dogs in the ICU can help lessen patients' pain & make them more hopeful. Getting people out of bed in intensive care units, even when they're being mechanically ventilated, is associated... read more
Bike Rehab is Helping Critical Care Patients Along the Road to Recovery
Getting on the bike is a stepping stone into rehabilitation - you see that bike and you know then that you're getting better. You know you're not just going to lie in that bed and vegetate. So successful was the exercise... read more
Animal-assisted Intervention in the ICU: A Tool for Humanization
The combination of an aging population and advances in critical care medicine is resulting in a growing number of survivors of critical illness. Survivors' descriptions of their stay in an intensive care unit (ICU) are frequently... read more
Conceptualizing Post Intensive Care Syndrome in Children
Post Intensive Care Syndrome in pediatrics (PICS-p) will help illuminate the phenomena of surviving childhood critical illness and guide outcomes measurement in the field. Empirical studies are now required to validate and... read more
Recovery After Critical Illness: Putting the Puzzle Together
In this review, we seek to highlight how critical illness and critical care affect longer-term outcomes, to underline the contribution of ICU delirium to cognitive dysfunction several months after ICU discharge, to give new... read more
Long-term Recovery Following Critical Illness in an Australian Cohort
Almost all data on 5-year outcomes for critical care survivors come from North America and Europe. The aim of this study was to investigate long-term mortality, physical function, psychological outcomes and health-related... read more
Consensus Statement on Nutrition Screening and Therapy Within a Surgical Enhanced Recovery Pathway
Perioperative malnutrition has proven to be challenging to define, diagnose, and treat. Despite these challenges, it is well known that suboptimal nutritional status is a strong independent predictor of poor postoperative... read more
TBI Outcomes in an LMIC Tertiary Care Centre and Performance of Trauma Scores
This observational study of patients sustaining moderate or severe TBI in Sri Lanka (a LMIC) reveals only 46% of patients were alive at 6 months after ICU discharge and only 20% overall attained a good (GOSE 7 or 8) recovery.... read more
Joint Consensus Statement on Postoperative Gastrointestinal Dysfunction Within an Enhanced Recovery
The primary driver of length of stay after bowel surgery, particularly colorectal surgery, is the time to return of gastrointestinal (GI) function. Traditionally, delayed GI recovery was thought to be a routine and unavoidable... read more
How Do You Feel? Subjective Perception of Recovery
Long-term subjective and objective outcome appears good in the majority of cardiac arrest survivors. Specific functional and cognitive impairments were found in patients reporting unsatisfactory recovery. Subjective recovery... read more
