Textbook of Post-ICU Medicine: The Legacy of Critical Care - Hardcover

9780199653461: Textbook of Post-ICU Medicine: The Legacy of Critical Care

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199653461 ISBN 13: 9780199653461

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014

Surviving critical illness is not always the happy ending that we imagine for patients. Intensive care unit (ICU) teams have traditionally focused on short term goals such as stabilizing or reversing organ system dysfunction, with little understanding of what became of patients once they left the ICU. However, research conducted in recent years has demonstrated that many ICU survivors can suffer from ill health and mental health issues for months or years to follow. The Textbook of Post-ICU Medicine: The Legacy of Critical Care identifies the long term outcomes of ICU and the steps that can be taken to improve patients' health and wellbeing.

Describing the major clinical syndromes affecting ICU survivors, the book delineates established or postulated biological mechanisms of the post-acute recovery process, and discusses strategies for treatment and rehabilitation to promote recovery in the ICU and in the long term. Many ICU survivors suffer from a range of long-lasting physical and psychological issues such as end stage renal disease, congestive heart failure, cognitive impairment, neuromuscular weakness, and depression or anxiety, which affect their overall quality of life and ability to lead productive lives. This book discusses the science of the recovery process and the innovative treatment regimens which are helping ICU survivors regain function as they heal following trauma or disease. This lingering burden or 'legacy' of critical illness is now recognized as a major public health issue, with major efforts underway to understand how it can be prevented, mitigated, or treated.

The chapters are written by an interdisciplinary panel of leading clinicians and researchers working in the field. The book serves as a unique reference for general practitioners, internists and nurses caring for long term ICU survivors as well as specialists in intensive care medicine, neurology, psychiatry, and rehabilitation medicine.

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About the Author:

Robert Stevens, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA,Nicholas Hart, Clinical Research Consultant, Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, National Institute of Health Research, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, London, UK,Margaret Herridge, Director of ICU Research, Critical Care and Respiratory Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Review:

Some of the most well known authors within critical care have contributed, giving an international appeal....The net result is a book that is very accessible, and more importantly feels relevant to clinical practice.... there can be no better guide than this book. * M.Beed BJA * This is a unique and important contribution as clinicians and society come to grips with the needs of a new and rapidly expanding population of patients requiring post-ICU care to optimize outcomes. * Doody's Notes * Featured on Doody's Core Titles List for 2018

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