For many years, intensive care has focused on avoiding immediate death from acute, life-threatening conditions. However, there are increasing reports of a number of lingering consequences for those who do indeed survive intensive care. Examples include on-going high risk of death, neurocognitive defects, significant caregiver burden, and continued high healthcare costs.
Surviving Intensive Care, written by the world's experts in this area, is dedicated to better understanding the consequences of surviving intensive care and is intended to provide a synopsis of the current knowledge and a stimulus for future research and improved care of the critically ill.

Natural History of Critical Illness

Survival as an Outcome for ICU Patients
Morbidity and Functional Limitation in Survivors of ARD
Health-related Quality of Life
The Neuropsychological Consequences of Intensive Care
The Burden of Caregiving on Families of ICU Survivors
Long-term Economic Consequences of Surviving Intensive Care
Understanding Outcomes of Critically Ill Older Patients
Measuring the Health Status of Pediatric ICU Survivors
Predictors and Modifiers of Long-tern Outcomes
Pre-ICU Factors
Intra-ICU patient factors
ICU Environmental Factors and Quality of Sleep in Critically Ill Patients
The Impact of Routine ICU Supportive Care on Long-term Outcomes from Critical Illness
Improving Methods to Capture Long-term Outcomes in Clinical Studies
Disease-free Survival and Quality of Life as End-points in Clinical Trials
Surrogate Measures of Patient-centered Outcomes in Critical Care
Measuring Health Status after Critical Illness: Where Are We and Where Do We Go from Here?
How Should We Assess Neuropsychological Sequelae of Critical Illness?
How Can We Evaluate Information Provided to Family Members in the ICU?
Approaches to Improve Long-term Outcomes
How Should We Measure the Economic Consequences of Critical Illness?
Modifying Triage Decisions to Optimize Long-term Outcomes
Preventing Nosocomial Infections to Improve Outcome of Intensive Care
Preventing Iatrogenic Complications
Changing ICU Behavior to Focus on Long-term Outcomes
L.O.V.E. and Quality of Life within the ICU: How can it improve Patient Outcome?
Re-organizing Health Care Systems to Optimize Critical Care Outcomes
Defining' success'in ICU Care..