Background: After critical illness, new or worsening impairments in physical, cognitive,
and/or mental health function are common among patients who have survived. Who should …

Critical illness can be lethal and devastating to survivors. Improvements in acute care have
increased the number of intensive care unit (ICU) survivors. These survivors confront a …

Introduction Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) has only recently been recognized as a
new clinical entity in patients surviving their intensive care unit (ICU) stay due to critical …

Purpose To identify, evaluate and synthesise studies examining the barriers and enablers
for survivors of critical illness to participate in physical activity in the ICU and post-ICU …

Purpose: Family caregivers provide essential support as stroke survivors' return to
community living, but it is not standard clinical practice to prepare or provide ongoing …

Rationale: Post–intensive care syndrome (PICS), defined as new or worsening impairment
in cognition, mental health, or physical function after critical illness, is an important …

Aim To explore the challenges and caring activities of spouses of intensive care unit
survivors during the first year of patient recovery. Background Every year, millions of people …

Background Intensive care survivors suffer chronic and potentially life-changing physical,
psychosocial and cognitive sequelae, and supporting recovery is an international priority. As …

Post–intensive care syndrome, a condition defined by new or worsening impairment in
cognition, mental health, and physical function after critical illness, has emerged in the past …

AIMS: To critically review the literature in order to describe the themes associated with the
experience of critical illness and consider how these inform the patients understanding …