慢性危重症的营养治疗

Caring for Patients With Postintensive Care Syndrome By Jennifer Doley, MBA, RD, CNSC, FAND Over 5 million patients are admitted to an ICU in the United States every year.1 While many patients only spend a day or two in the ICU, those that are critically ill stay much longer. Patients who survive the initial illness which precipitated their ICU stay sometimes do not fully recover and continue to require intensive medical care and rehabilitation. This state is often referred to as chronic critical illness (CCI), persistent critical illness, or postintensive care syndrome. There’s a lack of consensus on a specific definition of CCI; however, widely recognized symptoms include persistent weakness or frailty, mood disorders, and impaired cognitive function. …