title: Quality of life, emotional abnormalities, and cognitive dysfunction in survivors of acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome.
abstract: This article provides a brief discussion of the recent literature linking quality-of-life impairment to physical dysfunction after acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome. Its main focus is a review of the current knowledge concerning cognitive and emotional outcomes after lung injury and their impact on long-term quality of life.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT 84143, USA. ramona.hopkins@intermountainmail.org
authors.forename: Ramona O
authors.initials: RO
authors.lastname: Hopkins
authors.forename: Margaret S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Herridge
mesh_terms: D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index