Surviving Intensive Care

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

   1. How Can We Evaluate Information Provided to Family Members in the ICU?

      • Azoulay E., Moreau D., Pochard F.

      Pages 211-217

2. Approaches to Improve Long-term Outcomes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

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   2. How should we Measure the Economic Consequences of Critical Illness?

      • Hout B.A., Angus D.C.

      Pages 221-234

   3. Modifying Triage Decisions to Optimize Long-term Outcomes

      • Sprung C.L., Levin P.D.

      Pages 235-246

   4. Preventing Nosocomial Infections to Improve Outcomes of Intensive Care

      • Brun-Buisson C.

      Pages 247-255

   5. Preventing iatrogenic Complications

      • Bion J., Hart G.K., Khan Z.

      Pages 257-286

   6. Changing ICU Behavior To Focus On Long Term Outcomes

      • McMullin J., Cook D.J.

      Pages 287-296

   7. L.O.V.E. and Quality of Life within the ICU: How can it improve Patient Outcome?

      • Carlet J., Garrouste-Orgeas M., Guidet B.

      Pages 297-304

   8. Re-organizing Health Care Systems to Optimize Critical Care Outcomes

      • Hartleib M., Sibbald W.J.

      Pages 305-321

   9. Defining’ success’ in ICU Care

      • Pronovost P., Holzmueller C.G., Wu A.

      Pages 323-340

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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