Background Understanding the impact of COVID 19 on patients' quality of life (QOL)
following discharge or recovery is essential for planning necessary interventions in advance …

For more than two decades, sepsis was defined as a microbial infection that produces fever
(or hypothermia), tachycardia, tachypnoea and blood leukocyte changes. Sepsis is now …

Background: Millions of patients are discharged from intensive care units annually. These
intensive care survivors and their families frequently report a wide range of impairments in …

Objective: Survivors of severe critical illness frequently develop substantial and persistent
physical complications, including muscle weakness, impaired physical function, and …

Rationale: Profound muscle weakness during and after critical illness is termed intensive
care unit–acquired weakness (ICUAW). Objectives: To develop diagnostic …

Critical care has evolved from treatment of poliomyelitis victims with respiratory failure in an
intensive care unit to treatment of severely ill patients irrespective of location or specific …

Objectives: As critical care advances and intensive care unit mortality declines, the number
of survivors of critical illness is increasing. These survivors frequently experience long …

Introduction Data are lacking on impact of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) on
health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among survivors. Methods We conducted a cross …

Introduction As the population ages, the number of injured elderly is increasing. We sought
to determine if low skeletal muscle mass adversely affected outcome in elderly patients …

Objectives: Palliative care is an interprofessional specialty as well as an approach to care by
all clinicians caring for patients with serious and complex illness. Unlike hospice, palliative …