Long-Lasting Depressive Symptoms, Physical Impairment Often Follow ICU Stays

Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 12:01 in Health & Medicine

Critically ill patients who recover from a potentially deadly syndrome known as acute lung injury frequently emerge with new, apparently long-lasting depressive symptoms and new physical impairments that make them unable to perform many daily tasks, Johns Hopkins research suggests.

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