Pediatric Cardiac Arrest: A Review of Recovery and Survivorship

Over the last decade with improved survival from cardiac arrest, there has been a developing focus on the outcomes associated with favorable survivorship.1,2 Studies of children, evaluating long-term outcomes after critical illness, including cardiac arrest, highlight that survivors and their families may suffer from what is referred to as “post-intensive care syndrome in pediatrics” or PICS-p3,4 and that survivors remain medically vulnerable in the years after discharge.5,6 PICS-p encompasses the constellation of cognitive, physical, emotional, and social difficulties experienced by children and families during and after pediatri c critical illness and highlights that these aspects of health may have unique longitudinal trajectories of recovery.
Source: Resuscitation - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Review Source Type: research