Patients at high risk for psychiatric symptoms after a stay in the intensive care unit
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
Results of a multi-institutional national study of nearly 700 people who survived life-threatening illness with a stay in an intensive care unit suggest that a substantial majority of them are at high risk for persistent depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder -- especially if they are female, young and unemployed.