Rehabilitating patients after critical care.
Many people survive critical illness but experience problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder, after discharge from the critical care unit. This article aims to help intensive care and ward-based nurses, as well as the wider multidisciplinary team, understand the importance of promoting rehabilitation for patients after critical illness. It outlines how critical illness and admission to intensive care affects patients and families, and details rehabilitation strategies that have been adopted and proved beneficial.
Louise
L
Wood
D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000451:nursing / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D010351:Patient Discharge