Effective post-ICU rehabilitation of critical illness survivors: What do we know?

摘要

In this issue of Critical Care Medicine, Mehlhorn et al (1) provide a timely systematic review of postintensive care interventions to prevent or ameliorate complications of critical illness and intensive care, such as posttrau-matic stress, depression, cognitive impairment, and physical weakness. These phenomena are so common in critical illness and ICU survivors (2-5) that a recent Society of Critical Care Medicine task force coined a term to encompass all of them, postintensive care syndrome (PICS), in order to raise awareness (6). It is encouraging that our clinical research colleagues across the globe have embraced this new term so quickly.