Cognitive dysfunction in ICU patients: Risk factors, predictors, and rehabilitation interventions

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 9 SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Elizabeth Wilcox, M ^a   Brummel, Nathan E ^b   Archer, Kristin ^b   Wesley Ely, E ^b,c   Jackson, James C ^b,c,d   Hopkins, Ramona O ^e,f  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adult respiratory distress syndrome; cognitive impairment; critical illness; disability; ICU; intervention; rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; BENZODIAZEPINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSGLYCEMIA; EMBASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; MEMORY DISORDER; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROIMAGING; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SLEEP DISORDER; SURVIVOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WARD;

ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84883584665     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182a16946     Document Type: Review

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