An increasing number of patients are surviving critical illness, but some experience new or
worsening long-lasting impairments in physical, cognitive and/or mental health, commonly …

Abstract Background Intensive Care Unit (ICU) survivors often experience several
impairments in their physical, cognitive, and psychological health status, which are labeled …

Sepsis is life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to
infection (1). Sepsis and septic shock are major healthcare problems, impacting millions of …

The highly infectious and pathogenic novel coronavirus (CoV), severe acute respiratory
syndrome (SARS)-CoV-2, has emerged causing a global pandemic. Although COVID-19 …

Importance Survival from sepsis has improved in recent years, resulting in an increasing
number of patients who have survived sepsis treatment. Current sepsis guidelines do not …

Rationale: Disability risk groups and 1-year outcome after greater than or equal to 7 days of
mechanical ventilation (MV) in medical/surgical intensive care unit (ICU) patients are …

Background Insufficient or excessive respiratory effort during acute hypoxemic respiratory
failure (AHRF) increases the risk of lung and diaphragm injury. We sought to establish …

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 …

Background The intensive care unit (ICU) stay has been linked with a number of physical
and psychological sequelae, known collectively as post‐intensive care syndrome (PICS) …

Rationale: Cognitive and psychiatric morbidity is common and potentially modifiable after
acute lung injury (ALI). However, practical measures of neuropsychological function for use …