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Improving Critical Care Survivorship

A Guide to Prevention, Recovery, and Reintegration

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  • Provides a framework on how to improve patient outcomes and reduce the burden of PICS
  • Supplemented with over 100 illustrations and photographs
  • Written by experts in the field

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of improving critical care survivorship. Comprised of four sections, the text presents interventions that can be used to improve patient outcomes and reduce the burden of post-intensive care syndrome across the arc of care, from the ICU to returning home. The first section of the text focuses on preventing adverse outcomes in the ICU, with an emphasis on implementing early mobilization, engaging and supporting families, and employing various forms of therapy. The second section revolves around enhancing recovery post-ICU, focusing on physical and neurocognitive rehabilitation programs, peer support, and poly-pharmacy management. Community reintegration is the subject of the third section, with emphasis on socioeconomic reintegration, healthcare utilization, and volunteerism in ICU recovery. The book concludes with a section on future considerations, specifically spotlighting preliminary ideas that address long-term sequelae and international collaboration to solve critical care challenges. 

Written by experts in the field, Improving Critical Care Survivorship: A Guide for Prevention, Recovery, and Reintegration is a valuable resource for critical care clinicians and researchers interested in improving the quality of patient survival after ICU admission.


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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Preventing Adverse Outcomes in the ICU

  2. Enhancing Recovery Post-ICU

  3. Community Reintegration

Reviews

“This book gives a great depth of insight into how the quality of survivorship can be improved through focusing on current best practise and gaps for future research. … gives valuable insight into the current evidence-based strategies and methods used to try to prevent and manage PICS throughout the patient’s critical illness. It provokes thoughts on the simple measures that can have lasting meaningful impacts and would be a valuable resource for all clinicians involved in critically ill patient journeys.” (Annika Jarman, Journal of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Respiratory Care, Vol. 54 (1), 2022)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physiotherapy, Western Health, Melbourne, Australia

    Kimberley J. Haines

  • Glasgow Royal Infirmary, NHS Greater, Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow, UK

    Joanne McPeake

  • Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA

    Carla M. Sevin

About the editors

Kimberley J. Haines, PhD

Critical Care Physiotherapist and Physiotherapy Research 

Lead Western Health Department of Physiotherapy 

St Albans, Melbourne, Victoria Australia​



Joanne McPeake, PhD

Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer


School of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing


University of Glasgow


Glasgow, UK



Carla M. Sevin, MD

Department of Medicine

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, TN, USA


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Improving Critical Care Survivorship

  • Book Subtitle: A Guide to Prevention, Recovery, and Reintegration

  • Editors: Kimberley J. Haines, Joanne McPeake, Carla M. Sevin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68680-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68679-6Published: 23 April 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68682-6Published: 23 April 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-68680-2Published: 22 April 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 303

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Intensive / Critical Care Medicine

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