Mortality, morbidity, and quality-of-life outcomes of patients requiring ≥ 14 days of mechanical ventilation: a 12-month post-intensive-care-unit cohort study
Dear Editor, Intensive care unit (ICU) survivors suffer significant morbidity,(,) and longer mechanical ventilation (MV)-dependency increases the probability that these subjects will suffer a “persistent inflammation-immunosuppression and catabolism syndrome”.(–) These patients have ongoing inflammation, manageable organ failure, ongoing protein catabolism, and poor nutrition, leading to cachexia; poor wound healing and immunosuppression with increased susceptibility to […]
Mortality, morbidity, and quality-of-life outcomes of patients requiring ≥ 14 days of mechanical ventilation: a 12-month post-intensive-care-unit cohort study
Dear Editor, Intensive care unit (ICU) survivors suffer significant morbidity,(,) and longer mechanical ventilation (MV)-dependency increases the probability that these subjects will suffer a “persistent inflammation-immunosuppression and catabolism syndrome”.(–) These patients have ongoing inflammation, manageable organ failure, ongoing protein catabolism, and poor nutrition, leading to cachexia; poor wound healing and immunosuppression with increased susceptibility to […]