Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS), an AAST Critical Care Committee Consensus Guideline: expectations, mental health impairments, financial hardship, and caregiver burden in PICS
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) is defined as new or worsening physical, cognitive, psychological, or thromboinflammatory impairments that develop during or after critical illness and persist beyond hospital discharge. 1 These impairments reflect a multifactorial response to prolonged critical illness and the physiologic stress of intensive care, often persisting for months to years after hospital discharge, and significantly impacting patients’ recovery, functional status, and quality of life. Recognition of PICS has increased during the past decade as survival after critical illness has improved, shifting the focus toward long-term outcomes among intensive care unit (ICU) survivors.
Source: Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open
Institutions: Medical College of Wisconsin, University of California, Riverside, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Stony Brook University, University of California, San Francisco, Stanford Medicine, Stanford University, Hamad General Hospital, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,100
OpenAlex ID: W7222620929