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Life after critical illness: an overview.

Janice Rattray1

  • 1School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.

Journal of Clinical Nursing
|September 17, 2013
PubMed
Summary

Patients recovering from critical illness often face significant physical and psychological challenges, impacting their quality of life. Early, coordinated rehabilitation is crucial for improving outcomes for intensive care unit survivors.

Keywords:
critical careintensive carepsychological well-beingquality of liferehabilitation

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Area of Science:

  • Critical care medicine
  • Intensive care unit (ICU) outcomes
  • Patient recovery and rehabilitation

Background:

  • Recovery from critical illness is a growing international concern.
  • Prolonged recovery can lead to significant physical and psychological sequelae.
  • These issues negatively affect patients' health-related quality of life.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To outline the physical and psychological challenges post-critical illness.
  • To review interventions tested for critical care survivors.
  • To identify future research directions in critical care recovery.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review incorporating expert knowledge.
  • Utilized 'The Knowledge Network Scotland' search engine.
  • Synthesized findings from key researchers in critical care.

Main Results:

  • Common issues include fatigue, weakness, anxiety, depression, PTSD, delirium, and cognitive impairment.
  • Prevalence data is challenging due to methodological variations in studies.
  • Patients with severe critical illness are at higher risk for adverse outcomes.
  • Intervention effectiveness requires further empirical validation.

Conclusions:

  • A coordinated, multidisciplinary recovery and rehabilitation pathway is essential.
  • This pathway should commence upon intensive care unit admission.
  • Addressing post-ICU physical and psychological deficits is critical.