Long-term cognitive impairment after critical illness

Long-term cognitive impairment after critical illness. NEJM, Oct 2013, 369: 1306-16

Pandharipande, P.P., et al.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1301372?af=R&rss=currentIssue

Survivors of critical illness often have a prolonged and disabling form of cognitive impairment that remains inadequately characterized. We enrolled adults with respiratory failure or shock in the medical or surgical intensive care unit (ICU), evaluated them for in-hospital delirium, and assessed global cognition and executive function 3 and 12 months after discharge.