Search Tag: PICS
2024 03 Oct
Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) is a critical issue affecting survivors of intensive care. PICS involves new or worsened physical, psychological, and cognitive impairments after critical illness, significantly impacting health-related quality of life (HRQoL), functional outcomes, and employment. Critical care rehabilitation occurs in four...Read more
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
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
2020 24 Nov
An overview of the Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) and the challenges faced by critical care patients post-ICU. Read more
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