The psychological and psychiatric consequences of the ICU stay.
From the patient's point of view, the Intensive Care Unit is both a frightening place and a safe haven. Psychologically, what we see most commonly are regression, delirium and paranola. Regression requires no treatment; delirium is treatable not only medically but psychologically as well; paranoia is best treated by prevention.
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Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
D003221:Confusion; D003693:Delirium / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D010259:Paranoid Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D012043:Regression, Psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological