Angus / Carlet Surviving Intensive Care

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-3-642-55733-0
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Update in Intensive Care Medicine

For many years, intensive care has focused on avoiding immediate death from acute, life-threatening conditions. However, there are increasing reports of a number of lingering consequences for those who do indeed survive intensive care. Examples include on-going high risk of death, neurocognitive defects, significant caregiver burden, and continued high healthcare costs. Surviving Intensive Care , written by the world's experts in this area, is dedicated to better understanding the consequences of surviving intensive care and is intended to provide a synopsis of the current knowledge and a stimulus for future research and improved care of the critically ill.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Angus, Derek C.

Carlet, Jean

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Natural History of Critical Illness.- Survival as an Outcome for ICU Patients.- Morbidity and Functional Limitation in Survivors of ARD.- Health-related Quality of Life.- The Neuropsychological Consequences of Intensive Care.- The Burden of Caregiving on Families of ICU Survivors.- Long-term Economic Consequences of Surviving Intensive Care.- Understanding Outcomes of Critically Ill Older Patients.- Measuring the Health Status of Pediatric ICU Survivors.- Predictors and Modifiers of Long-tern Outcomes.- Pre-ICU Factors.- Intra-ICU patient factors.- ICU Environmental Factors and Quality of Sleep in Critically Ill Patients.- The Impact of Routine ICU Supportive Care on Long-term Outcomes from Critical Illness.- Improving Methods to Capture Long-term Outcomes in Clinical Studies.- Disease-free Survival and Quality of Life as End-points in Clinical Trials.- Surrogate Measures of Patient-centered Outcomes in Critical Care.- Measuring Health Status after Critical Illness: Where Are We and Where Do We Go from Here?.- How Should We Assess Neuropsychological Sequelae of Critical Illness?.- How Can We Evaluate Information Provided to Family Members in the ICU?.- Approaches to Improve Long-term Outcomes.- How Should We Measure the Economic Consequences of Critical Illness?.- Modifying Triage Decisions to Optimize Long-term Outcomes.- Preventing Nosocomial Infections to Improve Outcome of Intensive Care.- Preventing Iatrogenic Complications.- Changing ICU Behavior to Focus on Long-term Outcomes.- L.O.V.E. and Quality of Life within the ICU: How can it improve Patient Outcome?.- Re-organizing Health Care Systems to Optimize Critical Care Outcomes.- Defining’ success’in ICU Care..