Comorbidities, multimorbidity and COVID-19

CD Russell, NI Lone, JK Baillie - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The influence of comorbidities on COVID-19 outcomes has been recognized since the
earliest days of the pandemic. But establishing causality and determining underlying …

Respiratory sequelae of COVID-19: pulmonary and extrapulmonary origins, and approaches to clinical care and rehabilitation

SJ Singh, MM Baldwin, E Daynes, RA Evans… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Although the exact prevalence of post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) is
unknown, more than a third of patients with COVID-19 develop symptoms that persist for …

Post‐intensive care syndrome: its pathophysiology, prevention, and future directions

S Inoue, J Hatakeyama, Y Kondo… - Acute medicine & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Expanding elderly populations are a major social challenge in advanced countries
worldwide and have led to a rapid increase in the number of elderly patients in intensive …

The ABCDEF bundle: science and philosophy of how ICU liberation serves patients and families

EW Ely - Critical care medicine, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Over the past 20 years, critical care has matured in a myriad of ways resulting in dramatically
higher survival rates for our sickest patients. For millions of new survivors comes de novo …

Mechanical ventilation: state of the art

T Pham, LJ Brochard, AS Slutsky - Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2017 - Elsevier
Mechanical ventilation is the most used short-term life support technique worldwide and is
applied daily for a diverse spectrum of indications, from scheduled surgical procedures to …

Interprofessional care and teamwork in the ICU

AL Donovan, JM Aldrich, AK Gross… - Critical care …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: We describe the importance of interprofessional care in modern critical care
medicine. This review highlights the essential roles played by specific members of the …

[HTML][HTML] The global burden of sepsis and septic shock

L La Via, G Sangiorgio, S Stefani, A Marino, G Nunnari… - Epidemiologia, 2024 - mdpi.com
A dysregulated host response to infection causes organ dysfunction in sepsis and septic
shock, two potentially fatal diseases. They continue to be major worldwide health burdens …

Effect of palliative care–led meetings for families of patients with chronic critical illness: a randomized clinical trial

SS Carson, CE Cox, S Wallenstein, LC Hanson… - Jama, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Family caregivers of patients with chronic critical illness experience significant
psychological distress. Objective To determine whether family informational and emotional …

Early rehabilitation to prevent postintensive care syndrome in patients with critical illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis

R Fuke, T Hifumi, Y Kondo, J Hatakeyama, T Takei… - BMJ open, 2018 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction We examined the effectiveness of early rehabilitation for the prevention of
postintensive care syndrome (PICS), characterised by an impaired physical, cognitive or …

Post-intensive care syndrome in survivors from critical illness including COVID-19 patients: a narrative review

CS Vrettou, V Mantziou, AG Vassiliou, SE Orfanos… - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
Current achievements in medical science and technological advancements in intensive care
medicine have allowed better support of critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICUs) …