Rehabilitation After Critical Illness [Internet]

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This short clinical guideline aims to improve the rehabilitation of adult general critical care patients. This includes recommending screening and/or assessment and appropriate rehabilitation strategies throughout the patient’s rehabilitation care pathway. Key principles of care and information and the support needs of patients and their families and/or carers are also addressed in this guideline. However, this guideline does not cover adult patients receiving palliative care, clinical subgroups of patients whose specialist rehabilitation needs are already routinely assessed and delivered as part of their care pathway (for example, patients who received critical care as part of an elective pathway and who did not develop an unanticipated, continuing critical illness), and in specialist areas where published guidelines already exist, such as head injury, myocardial infarction and stroke.