Improving Long-Term Outcomes After Sepsis.

Crit Care Clin

Department of Systems, Populations & Leadership, School of Nursing, University of Michigan, 400 North Ingalls Street #4351, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5482, USA.

Published: January 2018

Although acute survival from sepsis has improved in recent years, a large fraction of sepsis survivors experience poor long-term outcomes. In particular, sepsis survivors have high rates of weakness, cognitive impairment, hospital readmission, and late death. To improve long-term outcomes, in-hospital care should focus on early, effective treatment of sepsis; minimization of delirium, distress, and immobility; and preparing patients for hospital discharge. In the posthospital setting, medical care should focus on addressing new disability and preventing medical deterioration, providing a sustained period out of the hospital to allow for recovery.

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