作者
Margaret S Herridge, Angela M Cheung, Catherine M Tansey, Andrea Matte-Martyn, Natalia Diaz-Granados, Fatma Al-Saidi, Andrew B Cooper, Cameron B Guest, C David Mazer, Sangeeta Mehta, Thomas E Stewart, Aiala Barr, Deborah Cook, Arthur S Slutsky
发表日期
2003/2/20
期刊
New England Journal of Medicine
卷号
348
期号
8
页码范围
683-693
出版商
Massachusetts Medical Society
简介
Background
As more patients survive the acute respiratory distress syndrome, an understanding of the long-term outcomes of this condition is needed.
Methods
We evaluated 109 survivors of the acute respiratory distress syndrome 3, 6, and 12 months after discharge from the intensive care unit. At each visit, patients were interviewed and underwent a physical examination, pulmonary-function testing, a six-minute–walk test, and a quality-of-life evaluation.
Results
Patients who survived the acute respiratory distress syndrome were young (median age, 45 years) and severely ill (median Acute Physiology, Age, and Chronic Health Evaluation score, 23) and had a long stay in the intensive care unit (median, 25 days). Patients had lost 18 percent of their base-line body weight by the time they were discharged from the intensive care unit and stated that muscle weakness and fatigue were the reasons for their …
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