Full Description
This book provides a comprehensive overview of improving critical care survivorship. Comprised of four sections, the text presents interventions that can be used to improve patient outcomes and reduce the burden of post-intensive care syndrome across the arc of care, from the ICU to returning home. The first section of the text focuses on preventing adverse outcomes in the ICU, with an emphasis on implementing early mobilization, engaging and supporting families, and employing various forms of therapy. The second section revolves around enhancing recovery post-ICU, focusing on physical and neurocognitive rehabilitation programs, peer support, and poly-pharmacy management. Community reintegration is the subject of the third section, with emphasis on socioeconomic reintegration, healthcare utilization, and volunteerism in ICU recovery. The book concludes with a section on future considerations, specifically spotlighting preliminary ideas that address long-term sequelae and international collaboration to solve critical care challenges.
Written by experts in the field, Improving Critical Care Survivorship: A Guide for Prevention, Recovery, and Reintegration is a valuable resource for critical care clinicians and researchers interested in improving the quality of patient survival after ICU admission.
Contents
Part I. Preventing Adverse Outcomes In The ICU.- Preventing PICS with the ABCDEF Bundle.- Implementing Early Mobilisation in the Intensive Care Unit.- Supporting Families in the Intensive Care Unit to Support ICU Survivors.- Humanising the ICU.- Complementary therapies in ICU.- ICU Diaries.- Optimising Sleep.- Flexible ICU visiting policies.- Part II. Enhancing Recovery Post-ICU.- Physical Rehabilitation Programs Following ICU Discharge.- Neurocognitive Rehabilitation.- Peer Support to Improve Recovery - Concepts and Considerations.- ICU Follow Up Clinics.- Transitioning towards the Mobile ICU.- Medication Management to Prevent and Mitigate Post Intensive Care Syndrome.- Palliative care and end-of-life care planning after critical illness.- Home-based Care For Survivors of Critical Illness.- Part III. Community Reintegration.- Transitions to primary care.- Socioeconomic reintegration after critical illness.- The role of the volunteer across the critical care recovery arc.- Part IV. The Future State.- Issues of survivorship in lower resource settings.- The first step in a critical journey: selecting patients for intensive care.- A PICS Free Future - What We Need to Address Now.- Institutionalizing Bold Humility via Collaboratives.
