Psychological and Cognitive Impact of Critical Illness, Paperback by Bienvenu...
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Psychological and Cognitive Impact of Critical Illness, Paperback by Bienvenu, O. Joseph, ., . (EDT); Jones, Christina, ., . (EDT); Hopkins, Ramona O., . (EDT), ISBN 0199398690, ISBN-13 9780199398690, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Neuropsychiatric problems after critical illness are receiving increasing attention, particularly in the critical care medicine literature, but mental health and primary care clinicians should also be interested in these common problems, given the growing number of critical illness survivors
who need care. Patients frequently come out of the intensive care unit (ICU) with horrifying distorted memories and don't understand what has happened to them. Not only are patients debilitated with ICU-acquired weakness and cognitive impairment, they are traumatized by actual experiences ( of breath and pain) and distorted memories (of being tortured, raped, assaulted, or imprisoned) shaped by delirium. Patients' family members are also frequently quite distressed, and children surviving critical illnesses appear to have similar experiences to adults. This book provides an
overview of the nature and epidemiology of cognitive and other psychiatric problems in this growing population, and it addresses the small but growing literature on prevention and early intervention efforts. Addressing these problems successfully will require collaborative interventions, both
in-ICU and post-ICU.
