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Follow-Up Consultations: Why?

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Post-Intensive Care Syndrome

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The development of intensive care unit follow-up clinics has provided an opportunity to truly understand the complexities of recovering from critical illness from the patient perspective; they have shown us, as clinicians and researchers, that successful discharge from ICU is just the start of the journey of recovery for many patients. This chapter explores the history of ICU follow-up, the evidence supporting (and refuting) the potential benefits, and the patient perspective of ICU follow-up.

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  1. Department of Clinical Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK

    Evelyn J. Corner

  2. Therapies Department, The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Evelyn J. Corner

  3. Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Stephen J. Brett

  4. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK

    Stephen J. Brett

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  1. Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean-Charles Preiser

  2. Respiratory and CCM, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Margaret Herridge

  3. Medical Intensive Care Unit, AP-HP Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France

    Elie Azoulay

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Corner, E.J., Brett, S.J. (2020). Follow-Up Consultations: Why?. In: Preiser, JC., Herridge, M., Azoulay, E. (eds) Post-Intensive Care Syndrome. Lessons from the ICU. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24250-3_22

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