Editors:
- Provides evidence of effective management of care from admission to critical care to facilitate a succesful discharge
- Offers current evidence to ensure effective progression through critical illness from early reahbilitation to recovery towards discharge
- Shows a unique multiprofessional collaboration between nurses and allied health professionals
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book provides a holistic and multi professional approach to maximising the chances of a successful recovery for the ICU patient surviving a period of critical illness. An admission to ICU with a critical illness has a well-recognised physical, psychological and social impact all on the individual and their loved ones of which need to remain in sharp focus from admission. Successful discharge from ICU requires significant attention to detail on all aspects of care concurrently to ensure a return to the best quality of life achievable. Early focus on structured rehabilitation and avoidance /prevention of ICU related complications are identified as paramount to improve both short and long term outcomes. This attention to detail needs to continue through the transition to the ward and planning discharge home. ‘Passport to a successful ICU discharge’ explores key areas to look forward to a successful recovery beginning with admission through to discharge in a holistic way. A Passport to discharge covers some key aspects to be achieved to the highest standards to create the best environment for success. A focus on promoting the best quality of life for the individual by careful attention to detail to benchmark every stage of their ICU journey which begins with admission. Chapters written by multidisciplinary ICU team members provide expert guidance and an evidence based approach to improve outcomes and return patients to their families.
Editors and Affiliations
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Intensive Care Unit, Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation, Exeter, UK
Carole Boulanger
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Therapy Services, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK
David McWilliams
About the editors
Dr David McWilliams is a Consultant Physiotherapist within critical care at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham which has the largest single location critical care unit in Europe. He is the chair of the physiotherapy working group for the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). David was a member of the guidelinedevelopment group for the NICE guideline ‘Critical Illness rehabilitation’ and subsequent quality standard on the same topic. He has extensive experience of research into both early and post ICU rehabilitation, with a number of publications in this area and regularly presents both nationally and internationally on the subject.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Passport to Successful ICU Discharge
Editors: Carole Boulanger, David McWilliams
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38916-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38915-4Published: 05 June 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38916-1Published: 04 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 155
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nursing Management, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine