Seven lessons from 20 years of follow-up of intensive care unit survivors.
OBJECTIVE
Through a personal narrative, the authors discuss the lessons they have learned from 20 years of intensive care follow-up and rehabilitation.


RESULTS
There is a greater understanding of the legacies of the physical, psychological and cognitive problems after critical illness, and new momentum toward developing and delivering practical care to both survivors of intensive care and their relatives.


CONCLUSIONS
The need and demand for care after critical illness is now firmly established.
Griffiths
Richard D
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Division of Metabolic and Cellular Medicine, School of Clinical Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. rdg@liverpool.ac.uk
Jones
Christina
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D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D009737:Nursing Records; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D014956:Writing