BACKGROUND: Recently, critical illness is seen more as a continuum of care across the whole hospital stay rather than focussed solely on the ITU admission. Hospital services such as Outreach Teams, Transition Programs and Follow-up Clinics have been introduced worldwide. They focus on specific aspects of patient care such as early recognition of critical illness and rehabilitation goals. The latter is dealing mostly with the Post Intensive Care syndrome (PICS), a hereditary and complex state related specifically to ITU survivors. Mater Dei Hospital has recently launched an ITU Outreach and Follow-up Service. We analysed their data collected over one year.
Kohl et al. (Wed,) studied this question.