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Post-intensive Care Syndrome: an Overview
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Rawal G
; Yadav S
; Kumar R
J Transl Int Med
2017[Jun]; 5
(2
): 90-92
PMID28721340
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Survival of critically unwell patients has improved in the last decade due to
advances in critical care medicine. Some of these survivors develop cognitive,
psychiatric and /or physical disability after treatment in intensive care unit
(ICU), which is now recognized as post intensive care syndrome (PICS). Given the
limited awareness about PICS in the medical faculty this aspect is often
overlooked which may lead to reduced quality of life and cause a lot of suffering
of these patients and their families. Efforts should be directed towards
preventing PICS by minimizing sedation and early mobilization during ICU.All
critical care survivors should be evaluated for PICS and those having signs and
symptoms of it should be managed by a multidisciplinary team which includes
critical care physician, neuro-psychiatrist, physiotherapist and respiratory
therapist, with the use of pharmacological and non-apharmacological
interventions. This can be achieved through an organizational change and
improvement, knowing the high rate of incidence of PICS and its adverse effects
on the survivor's life and daily activities and its effect on the survivor's
family.
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