Following intensive care unit hospitalization, survivors of acute neurological injury often
experience debilitating short-term and long-term impairments. Although the physical/motor …

Background The outcome focus for survivors of critical care has shifted from mortality to
patient-centered outcomes. Multidimensional outcome assessments performed in critically ill …

Background Until relatively recently, critical care practitioners have focused on the survival
of their patients and not on long-term outcomes. The incidence of chronic neurocognitive …

Objectives: Accurate prognostic information in patients with severe traumatic brain injury
remains limited, but mortality following the withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies is high and …

Current research indicates that the majority of survivors of critical illness develop post–
intensive care syndrome (PICS), which includes new or worsening cognitive or psychiatric …

For several years, we and others have been emphasizing the need to understand the long-
term consequences of critical illness [1]. Of all consequences, perhaps the most devastating …

Objectives: To characterize survivors' employment status after critical illness and to
determine if duration of delirium during hospitalization and residual cognitive function are …

Background: Trauma patients without intracranial hemorrhage or focal neurologic deficits
are typically considered low risk for lasting neuropsychological and emotional deficits, and …

Scottish medicine has a rich history of contribution to outcome assessment in traumatic brain
injury (TBI) and stroke. Jennet, Bond, and Rankin provided us with scales that are still in use …

Importance Neurocritical care (NCC) aims to improve the outcomes of critically ill patients
with brain injury, although the benefits of such subspecialized care are yet to be determined …