Fatigue in critical care survivors: multidisciplinary and self‐management strategies.

GLO:1WP/01sep21:anae15474-fig-0001.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): 1 Illness-symptom-activity cycle. gl Across different types of illness, including cancer, multiple sclerosis, rheumatologic disease, pulmonary disorders and chronic fatigue syndrome, there are common effective and sometimes counterintuitive, treatment modalities. While these discoveries were happening within critical care, a call from the US-based Institute of Medicine challenged clinicians to reform and re-invent healthcare delivery that would not just improve survival, but also promote long-term mitigation of disease symptoms [5]. Keywords: critical care; critical care outcomes; fatigue; intensive care units EN critical care critical care outcomes fatigue intensive care units 1163 1166 4 08/05/21 20210901 NES 210901 Since the inception of critical care, many lives have been saved by intensive care interventions and the medical teams that provide these interventions. We must help ICU survivors learn new skills and new ways of living with chronic symptoms; clinicians and researchers must redouble efforts to design and evaluate multidisciplinary and comprehensive treatment modalities that support recovery from the ICU to home. [Extracted from the article]