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Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain 2004 4(6):202-205; doi:10.1093/bjaceaccp/mkh054
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Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain | Volume 4 Number 6 2004 © The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2004

Follow-up after intensive care

John A Griffiths, FRCA MRCP MA, Specialist Registrar
Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, RG1 5AN

Melanie Gager, RGN, Follow-up Sister
Intensive Care Unit, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, RG1 5AN

Carl Waldmann, FRCA EDIC MA, Clinical Director
Intensive Care Unit, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, RG1 5AN
Tel: 01189 877249, Fax: 01189 877250, E-mail: cswald{at}aol.com (for correspondence)

Until recently, an intensive care unit (ICU) stay was deemed successful if a patient survived to go to the ward. Practitioners in neonatal medicine have always been concerned with the functional outcome of their infants. However, practitioners in adult intensive care have historically paid little attention to the long term outcomes of their patients. Also, little consideration was taken of the patient dying on the ward or soon after leaving hospital or indeed if the patient went home with an appalling quality of life.


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