Surviving Intensive Care Book

	Natural History of Critical Illness
	Survival as an Outcome for ICU Patients	3
	Morbidity and Functional Limitation in Survivors of ARDS	21
	Health-related Quality of Life	35
	The Neuropsychological Consequences of Intensive Care	51
	The Burden of Caregiving on Families of ICU Survivors	63
	Long-term Economic Consequences of Surviving Intensive Care	73
	Understanding Outcomes of Critically Ill Older Patients	85
	Measuring the Health Status of Pediatric ICU Survivors	107
	Predictors and Modifiers of Long-term Outcomes
	Pre-ICU Factors	119
	Intra-ICU patient factors	127
	ICU Environmental Factors and Quality of Sleep in Critically Ill Patients	133
	The Impact of Routine ICU Supportive Care on Long-term Outcomes from Critical Illness	145
	Improving Methods to Capture Long-term Outcomes in Clinical Studies
	Disease-free Survival and Quality of Life as End-points in Clinical Trials	155
	Surrogate Measures of Patient-centered Outcomes in Critical Care	169
	Measuring Health Status after Critical Illness: Where Are We and Where Do We Go from Here?	181
	How Should We Assess Neuropsychological Sequelae of Critical Illness?	197
	How Can We Evaluate Information Provided to Family Members in the ICU?	211
	Approaches to Improve Long-term Outcomes
	How Should We Measure the Economic Consequences of Critical Illness?	221
	Modifying Triage Decisions to Optimize Long-term Outcomes	235
	Preventing Nosocomial Infections to Improve Outcome of Intensive Care	247
	Preventing Iatrogenic Complications	257
	Changing ICU Behavior to Focus on Long-term Outcomes	287
	L.O.V.E. and Quality of Life within the ICU: How can it improve Patient Outcome?	297
	Re-organizing Health Care Systems to Optimize Critical Care Outcomes	305
	Defining 'Success' in ICU Care	323
	Subject Index	341