ICU Recovery in Australian Patients

Launched by AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND INTENSIVE CARE RESEARCH CENTRE · Aug 25, 2014

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ClinConnect Summary

The ICU Recovery program will measure psychological, functional and cognitive function and quality of life with health economic outcomes in critically ill patients 6 months after ICU admission. The initial pilot study will determine feasibility of the patient outcomes and measurement methods used. The study will consist of patients from three (3) Monash Partners ICUs (2 public and 1 private) as well as The Austin Hospital ICU. 10,000 ICU patients are managed by Monash Partners Academic Health Science Centre (MPAHSC) public and private hospitals each year, of which in the region of 8,500 pat...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • ICU patients who have been invasively mechanically ventilated for over 24 hours
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Patients aged less than 18 years old
• • A proven or suspected acute primary brain process that is likely to result in global impairment of conscious level or cognition (e.g. traumatic brain injury, subarachnoid haemorrhage, stroke or hypoxic brain injury after cardiac arrest)
• • Second or subsequent admission to ICU during a single hospital admission
• • Death is deemed imminent and inevitable
• • Participants who do not speak English