Search Tag: PICS

ICU Management

Exploring-post-icu-impairment

2024 30 Jan

With the increasing survival rates in the ICU, there is more focus on improving the quality of survival. Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS), characterised by cognitive, psychological, and physical impairments affecting up to 80% of ICU survivors, remains a significant challenge despite extensive research. Identifying the risk factors and understanding...Read more

ICU Management

The-post-icu-patient

2020 24 Nov

“The success of intensive care has not to be measured only by survival statistics, as though each death is a medical failure. It has to be measured by the quality of lives preserved or restored and by the quality of dying of those in whose interest is to die.” This statement of G. R. Dunstan, Prof. of Morals and Social Theology, dating back to 1995,...Read more

ICU Management

Infographic-6

2020 24 Nov

An overview of the Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) and the challenges faced by critical care patients post-ICU. Read more

ICU Management

The-role-of-post-icu-recovery-clinics

2019 06 Mar

With multiple advances in critical care, more patients are given the chance to survive life-threatening illnesses such as sepsis. This growing cohort of patients, however, grapples with a new challenge – post-intensive care syndrome (PICS). A raft of symptoms, including muscle weakness, depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD),...Read more