Family response to critical illness: Post-intensive care syndrome - family

Family response to critical illness: Post-intensive care syndrome - family. Critical care medicine, Feb. 2012, Vol. 40(2), p. 618-624.

Davidson, J.E., et al.

http://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Abstract/2012/02000/Family_response_to_critical_illness__.34.aspx

The family response to critical illness includes development of adverse psychological outcomes such as anxiety, acute stress disorder, posttraumatic stress, depression, and complicated grief. This cluster of complications from exposure to critical care is now entitled postintensive care syndrome–family.