Survivorship After Neurocritical Care: A Scoping Review of Outcomes Beyond Physical Status.

ABSTRACT: Following intensive care unit hospitalization, survivors of acute neurological injury often experience debilitating short-term and long-term impairments. Although the physical/motor impairments experienced by survivors of acute neurological injury have been described extensively, fewer studies have examined cognitive, mental health, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and employment outcomes. This scoping review describes the publication landscape beyond physical and/or motor sequelae in neurocritical care survivors. Databases were searched for terms related to critical illness, intensive care, and outcomes from January 1970 to March 2022. English-language studies of critically ill adults with a primary neurological diagnosis were included if they reported on at least one outcome of in

SUBMITTER: LaBuzetta JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11377172 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature