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Name of Media:
Post–Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) and Strategies to Mitigate PICS
Type of Library Material:
Medical Professional Education
Brief description of media:
Posthospital care of ICU survivors remains both a challenge and an opportunity. The mandate to optimize critical illness recovery with tailored survivorship programs seems clear. Additional research and clinical experience are needed to further delineate the needs of ICU survivors and develop effective interventions to mitigate the effects of PICS, with the goal of maximizing recovery after critical illness.
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Name of Media:
Surviving Critical Illness: What Is Post-ICU Syndrome and How Does it Affect Patients and Families?
Type of Library Material:
Newspaper Article
Brief description of media:
EVERY YEAR, ABOUT 6 million people are admitted to intensive care units with a life-threatening illness. As medical technology advances, more people survive conditions that once would have been fatal. However, about half of these ICU survivors develop some form of cognitive, psychosocial and physical deficits in a condition known as post-intensive care syndrome, or PICS.
Is this COVID-19 Related Material:
No
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