The quality of acute intensive care and the incidence of critical events have an impact on health-related quality of life in survivors of the acute respiratory distress syndrome - a nationwide prospective multicenter observational study.

Conclusions: In acute management of ARDS, a lower VT strategy associated with hypercapnia, as well as the frequent usage of catecholamines and the management of blood glucose may influence short-term HRQOL of survivors. The awareness of these findings is of clinical importance for the acute and post-ICU care. PMID: 32047416 [PubMed - in process]
Source: GMS German Medical Science - Category: General Medicine Tags: Ger Med Sci Source Type: research