Post-Intensive Care Syndrome

Post-intensive care syndrome includes emotional, cognitive, and physical sequelae that may persist after critical illness and ICU treatment. Post-intensive care syndrome consists of long-term physical, cognitive, and psychological impairments after critical illness and an ICU stay. Post-intensive care syndrome can involve physical, cognitive, or mental health impairment that persists after discharge. The absence of a LIFE-UP score association with three-month HABC-M scores was not interpreted as evidence that prevention practices lack clinical relevance. PICS prevention can begin during ICU admission because ICU practices influence later outcomes. ICU survivors with PICS may experience anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress symptoms, cognitive problems, immobility, pain, and reduced daily functioning. Between 50% and 70% of ICU survivors develop post-intensive care syndrome. Up to 80% of ICU survivors may experience at least one PICS symptom after discharge. Long-term sequelae after ICU survival are associated with increased healthcare use, reduced employment, and socioeconomic burden.