Expect the unexpected: clinical trials are key to understanding post-intensive care syndrome

Crit Care. 2013 Jun 12;17(3):149. doi: 10.1186/cc12725.

Abstract

Long-term follow-up of randomized prospective trials of treatments in the intensive care unit may allow us to attain some understanding of the causes of post-intensive care syndrome. This in turn may allow us to produce better long-term outcomes among survivors of critical illness.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hydroxyethyl Starch Derivatives / administration & dosage*
  • Isotonic Solutions / administration & dosage*
  • Male
  • Pruritus / drug therapy*
  • Quality of Life*
  • Resuscitation*
  • Sepsis / drug therapy*

Substances

  • Hydroxyethyl Starch Derivatives
  • Isotonic Solutions