Activities of daily living and psychiatric symptoms after intensive care unit discharge among critically ill patients with or without tracheostomy: a single center longitudinal study
Abstract:Aim
Tracheostomy is widely performed in critically ill patients who require prolonged mechanical ventilation. Long‐term morbidity (post‐intensive care syndrome) in tracheostomized patients is not widely reported, however, so we evaluate it here.
Methods
This is a sub‐analysis of a single center prospective longitudinal study, which assessed activities of daily living (ADL) and psychiatric symptoms in adult patients emergently admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). W… Show more
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