Surviving Intensive Care

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Natural History of Critical Illness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Survival as an Outcome for ICU Patients

      • Keenan S.P., Dodek P.

      Pages 3-20

   3. Morbidity and Functional Limitation in Survivors of ARDS

      • Herridge M.S.

      Pages 21-33

   4. Health-related Quality of Life

      • Rowan K.M., Jenkinson C., Black N.

      Pages 35-50

   5. The Neuropsychological Consequences of Intensive Care

      • Sukantarat K.T., Brett S.

      Pages 51-61

   6. The Burden of Caregiving on Families of ICU Survivors

      • Levy M.M.

      Pages 63-72

   7. Long-term Economic Consequences of Surviving Intensive Care

      • Kalassian K.G., Angus D.C.

      Pages 73-83

   8. Understanding Outcomes of Critically III Older Patients

      • Ely E.W.

      Pages 85-106

   9. Measuring the Health Status of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Survivors

      • Randolph A.G., Graham R.

      Pages 107-115

3. Predictors and Modifiers of Long-term Outcomes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Pre-ICU Factors

      • Moreno R., Matos R., Metnitz P.G.K

      Pages 119-126

   3. Intra-ICU patient factors

      • Vincent J.L.

      Pages 127-132

   4. ICU Environmental Factors and Quality of Sleep in Critically III Patients

      • Grasso S., Mascia L., Ranieri V.M.

      Pages 133-143

   5. The Impact of Routine ICU Supportive Care on Long-term Outcomes of Critical Illness

      • Hall J.B.

      Pages 145-151

4. Improving Methods to Capture Long-term Outcomes in Clinical Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Disease-free Survival and Quality of Life as End-points in Clinical Trials

      • Glabbeke M., Bottomley A.

      Pages 155-168

   3. Surrogate Measures of Patient-centered Outcomes in Critical Care

      • Rubenfeld G.D.

      Pages 169-180

   4. Measuring Health Status After Critical Illness: Where Are We and Where Do We Go From Here?

      • Curtis J.R.

      Pages 181-196

   5. How Should We Assess Neuropsychological Sequelae of Critical Illness?

      • Hopkins R.O.

      Pages 197-209

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.

• care
• complications
• critical care
• economic costs
• emergency medicine
• functional status
• intensive care
• morbidity
• mortality
• neurcognititve defects
• quality of care
• quality of life
• survival

From the reviews:

"This sleek and modern-appearing paperback is a recent publication by Springer-Verlag, in the series Update in Intensive Care Medicine. … Surviving Intensive Care has clear typography, high-quality paper, and a strong binding … . The illustrations and tables … are clear and generally informative. … As a whole, Surviving Intensive Care is probably most of interest to clinical researchers interested in considering long-term outcomes as primary or secondary end points of observational or interventional research in the ICU." (Catherine Lee Hough, Respiratory Care, Vol. 50 (9), September, 2005)

• Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

  Derek C. Angus

• Anaesthesiology and Emergency Department, Fondation Hôpital St Joseph, Paris Cedex 14, France

  Jean Carlet

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