Reconceptualizing post-intensive care syndrome: Do we need to unpick our PICS?

Dylan Flaws^{1

2

3}, Susan Patterson^{1

3}, John Fraser^{3

4}, Oystein Tronstad^{3

4

5}, James G Scott^{1

4

6}

Affiliations

¹ Metro North Mental Health Service, Brisbane, Australia.
² Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
³ Critical Care Research Group, Adult Intensive Care Unit, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
⁵ Physiotherapy Department, TPCH, Brisbane, Australia.
⁶ QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.

Case Reports

Dylan Flaws et al. Nurs Crit Care. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar;26(2):67-69.

doi: 10.1111/nicc.12545. Epub 2020 Sep 1.

Dylan Flaws^{1

2

3}, Susan Patterson^{1

3}, John Fraser^{3

4}, Oystein Tronstad^{3

4

5}, James G Scott^{1

4

6}

¹ Metro North Mental Health Service, Brisbane, Australia.
² Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
³ Critical Care Research Group, Adult Intensive Care Unit, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
⁵ Physiotherapy Department, TPCH, Brisbane, Australia.
⁶ QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.

No abstract available

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