Textbook of Post-ICU Medicine

• Main Authors: Stevens, Robert D, Hart, Nicholas, Herridge, Margaret S
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press, Incorporated 2014
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Complications; Critical care medicine

Intensive care unit (ICU) teams have traditionally focused on short term goals, however, recent research demonstrates that many ICU survivors can suffer from ill health and mental health issues for months or years to follow. The book identifies the long term outcomes of ICU and the steps that can be...