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Post–Intensive Care Unit Syndrome in a Cohort of COVID-19 Survivors in New York City by Karissa Weidman; Elyse LaFond; Katherine L. Hoffman; Parag Goyal; Christopher N. Parkhurst; Heather Derry-Vick; Edward Schenck; Lindsay Lief is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Rationale The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a dramatic increase in the number of survivors of critical illness. These survivors are at increased risk for physical, psychological, and cognitive impairments known collectively as post–intensive care syndrome (PICS). Little is known about the prevalence of PICS in COVID-19 survivors. ## Objectives To report the prevalence of physical, psychological, and cognitive impairment among COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) survivors receiving follow-up care in an ICU recovery clinic, to assess for associations between PICS and ICU-related factors, and to compare the cohort of ICU survivors who attended a post-ICU clinic with a cohort of ICU survivors who did not. ## Methods We performed a retrospective cohort study of COVID-19 ICU survivors admitted from March to May 2020 who were subsequently seen in a post-ICU recovery clinic in New York City. We abstracted medical chart data on available clinical screening instruments for physical, psychological, and cognitive impairment. Associations between these outcomes and care-related variables were tested. Baseline characteristics and in-hospital treatments of the post-ICU clin

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Author

Karissa Weidman; Elyse LaFond; Katherine L. Hoffman; Parag Goyal; Christopher N. Parkhurst; Heather Derry-Vick; Edward Schenck; Lindsay Lief

Publisher

American Thoracic Society

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)