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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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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)

Providers of various kinds working in the critical care unit, along with administrators guiding ICU programs, seeking to best support these complex patients are an appropriate audience for this book ... . This is an important selection of the rapidly evolving literature featuring strategies to improve the patient experience both in and outside the ICU. Presentations guide readers beyond the identification of simple organ system preservation toward successful reintegration with family and greater society. (David James Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, August 6, 2021)

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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

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