Longer stay in hospital ICU has lasting impact on quality of life
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 21:31
in Health & Medicine
Patients have substantial physical impairments even two years after being discharged from the hospital after a stay in an intensive care unit (ICU), new research suggests. The scientists found that for every day of bed rest in the ICU, muscle strength was between 3 and 11 percent lower over the following months and years.