title: [Opinions on the prevention and treatment of chronic critical illness].
abstract: Chronic critical illness (CCI) is an inevitable result of overpopulation and aging, as well as the development of medicine. The number of CCI patients will constantly increase and become an unaffordable economic burden for families, societies and countries. CCI could be prevented by multiple measures. Firstly, doctors must know about the pathophysiology and etiology of the disease. When providing organ function support for CCI patient, we have to know and treat the cause of the disease as early as possible. Secondly, we need to precisely monitor the insults caused by the disease and/or improper host response to the disease, evaluate the organ reserve function, and predict the outcomes and life quality after discharging from hospital. In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the humanity training of health care workers, publicize the correct thanatopsis in the whole society that every life is "born to die", and define the core role of medicine as "to comfort always".
authors.affiliation: Intensive Medicine, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing 100044, China. bjicu@163.com.
authors.forename: Youzhong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: An
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D016638:Critical Illness; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life