Post-ICU syndrome signals need for better transition between life-saving care and return to life

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Studies show that there are a range of reactions to a stay in the ICU, from the physical wasting that patients experience when they’re prone and immobilized to the emotional problems that can come with surviving a near-death experience to a kind of mental fogginess that seems to be associated with the sedation used in the ICU. Collectively, these physical, cognitive and psychiatric symptoms are known as post-ICU syndrome.

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