ICU sedation, delirium & recovery
Post-intensive care syndrome screening: a French multicentre survey
Authors' conclusion
Only a small minority of ICU survivors received follow-up designed to detect PICS. Less than a third of ICUs offered follow-up visits but nearly another third planned to set up such visits within the next year.
Study context
- Population
- French intensive-care-unit (ICUs) (head or intensivist in charge of follow-up visits)of 252 ICUs invited
- Participants
- 161 participants
- Outcome
- Availability of post-ICU follow-up visits to screen for PICS
Methodological detailsonline survey, multicentre, anonymous 43-item questionnaire, Usually a single intensivist-led visit 3 to 6 months after ICU discharge, Main selection criteria: ICU stay and/or invasive mechanical ventilation >48 h, cardiac arrest, septic shock, ARDS, Main barriers: lack of staff and equipment or post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) screening not a priority
- Online survey
- Multicentre
- Anonymous 43-item questionnaire
- Usually a single intensivist-led visit 3 to 6 months after ICU discharge
- Main selection criteria: ICU stay and/or invasive mechanical ventilation >48 h, cardiac arrest, septic shock, ARDS
- Main barriers: lack of staff and equipment or PICS screening not a priority
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
ICUs offering follow-up visits
46
28.6%
Patients attending post-ICU visits per year per ICU
≈50
Proportion of admitted patients attending post-ICU visits
about 5%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Use of validated instruments to screen for PICS (ICUs offering visits)
- Used validated instruments
- 80%
Intention to start follow-up within the next year (ICUs not offering follow-up, n = 115)
- Intended to start follow-up
- 50 (43.5%)
Network of post-ICU care professionals (ICUs offering visits)
- Worked with an established network
- Half
- Setting up a network
- 17%
Original publication
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