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Department of Anesthesiology College of Medicine
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Clinical Overview

Post-ICU Syndrome

*Please take the quiz below the video to receive credit.

Objectives

  1. Describe the long-term consequences of ICU hospitalization and define post-intensive care syndrome.
  2. List risk factors of delirium in the ICU including medication classes.
  3. List pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic measures that can be implemented to improve outcomes in the ICU.

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Quiz

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1. True or False: The Post-Intensive Care Syndrome is defined as new or worsening problems in physical, cognitive, or mental health status arising after critical illness and persisting bey9ondd hospitalization.(Required)
2. True or False: Cognitive Impairment does not typically persist after ICU stay.(Required)
3. Which of the following is not a risk factor for cognitive impairment?(Required)
4. The Brain-ICU study found what percentage of patients after respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation to suffer from cognitive impairment?(Required)
5. True or False: Delirium is defined as an acute change or fluctuation in mental status, inattention, disorganized thinking, and altered level of consciousness.(Required)
6. Which of the following medications can decrease your risk of delirium when prescribing sedation(Required)
7. True or False: After mechanical ventilation, patients can have reduced forced vital capacity, reduced forced expiratory volume, and reduced total lung capacity as a long term complication of ICU care.(Required)
8. Which of the following is the only intervention that has resulted in less days of delirium in ICU patients?(Required)
9. True or False: Physical Therapy can decrease the length of mechanical ventilation.(Required)
10. True or False: ICU Diaries can be utilized to decrease rates of PTSD.(Required)