A shift towards targeted post-ICU treatment: Multidisciplinary care for cardiac arrest survivors.

J Crit Care

Department of Neurology, Division of Critical Care and Hospitalist Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital, 8GS-300, New York, NY 10032, USA. Electronic address:

Published: August 2024

Intensive Care Unit (ICU) survivorship comprises a burgeoning area of critical care medicine, largely due to our improved understanding of and concern for patients' recovery trajectory, and efforts to mitigate the post-acute complications of critical illness. Expansion of care beyond hospitalization is necessary, yet evidence for post-ICU clinics remains limited and mixed, as both interventions and target populations studied to date are too heterogenous to meaningfully demonstrate efficacy. Here, we briefly present the existing evidence and limitations related to post-ICU clinics, identify cardiac arrest survivors as a unique ICU subpopulation warranting further investigation and treatment, and propose a clinical framework that addresses the multifaceted needs of this well-defined patient population.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrc.2024.154798DOI Listing

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