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Intensive care patients constitute a heterogeneous group, but they have in common that they suffer from imminent or established failure of vital organ functions. Modern intensive care is costly and labor demanding, but the hospital survival rates of patients have increased to 70-80%. So what happens to these survivors after hospital discarge? Is there a life after intensive care? There certainly is for the majority of patients. This book gives an overview of survival, recovery, functional status and quality of life up to several years after intensive care. These parameters are of course of…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Intensive care patients constitute a heterogeneous
group, but they have in common that they suffer from
imminent or established failure of vital organ
functions. Modern intensive care is costly and labor
demanding, but the hospital survival rates of
patients have increased to 70-80%.
So what happens to these survivors after hospital
discarge? Is there a life after intensive care?
There certainly is for the majority of patients.
This book gives an overview of survival, recovery,
functional status and quality of life up to several
years after intensive care. These parameters are of
course of major importance to patients and their
families and relatives, but also to health care
workers and authorities. Recommended tools for
measurement of these outcomes are presented, and
certain areas of concern and possible interventions
are pointed out.
Autorenporträt
Reidar Kvåle
Born 1963 in Bergen, Norway. Licentiate of Medicine (M.D.) 1989,
University of Bergen. Specialist in Anaesthesiology 1997.
Consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine at
Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, since 1998.