TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Preface A1 - Lane-Fall, Meghan B A1 - Shapiro, David S. A1 - Kaplan, Lewis J. PY - 2024 T2 - After the ICU: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Supporting Critical Illness Survivors AB - The seventy years since critical care became a specialty have been marked by vast technological advances shaping how we care for patients with critical illness or injury. New discoveries have informed our understanding of illness and have led to novel therapies for conditions ranging from infection to life-threatening hemorrhagic shock. Accordingly, an increasing number of patients survive their critical illness and define a unique group of patients known as “ICU survivors.” Their struggles during recovery—as well as those of their loved ones—inspired us to craft this book as a guide and a touchstone. Since patient-and-family centered care is at the heart of team-based critical care, it is important to recognize the key role that loved ones play during convalescence, and the difficulties that they encounter. Our textbook targets patients, family members, but also primary care clinicians as these three often navigate recovery well outside of the ICU, and clinicians whose practice is principally confined to the hospital. We expect that this book will also be of interest to hospital-based providers, including hospitalists and ICU providers, who care for patients in the early phases of care but may be ill-equipped to provide anticipatory guidance about the journey to recovery. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/12/13 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1204537095 ER -