Follow-up after intensive care

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Abstract
Until recently, an intensive care unit (ICU) stay was deemed successful if a patient survived to go to the ward. Practitioners in neonatal medicine have always been concerned with the functional outcome of their infants. However, practitioners in adult intensive care have historically paid little attention to the long term outcomes of their patients. Also, little consideration was taken of the patient dying on the ward or soon after leaving hospital or indeed if the patient went home with an appalling quality of life.