Survivorship of Patients post Long Intensive care stay, Exploration/Experience in a New Zealand cohort.

niversity Of Otago, Wellington0 sites118 target enrollmentOctober 5, 2021

Overview

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

October 5, 2021

End Date

TBD

Last Updated

last year

Study Type

Observational

Sex

All

Sponsor

niversity Of Otago, Wellington

•All patient participants will be adult ICU patients admitted to Wellington ICU who are \> 18 years old, been in an ICU for seven or more consecutive days, or patients who were mechanical ventilated for \>48 hours. Patients who have been in another New Zealand ICU/Critical Care Unit prior to retrieval to Wellington ICU will be included once both admissions \= \>7 days.
•Mechanical Ventilation is defined as a positive pressure ventilation (PPV) mode via an Endotracheal, Nasotracheal or Tracheostomy tube. Patients who have been extubated from PPV for a period and then reintubated are also included if both periods of PPV exceed 72 hours.

•Patients who are \< 18 years old
•Non\-English speakers
•Patients not expected to survive their hospital stay (deemed by ICU Senior Medical Officer (SMO) once inclusion criteria met).
•Patients in whom follow up would be challenging/impossible (e.g., prisoners, people who are homeless).
•Patients with pre\-existing neuromuscular disorder (e.g., Muscular Dystrophy, Multiple Sclerosis, Myasthenia Gravis, Guillain Barre).
•Neurovascular/neurotrauma/status epilepticus.
•Patients who have hypoxic/ischemic brain injury/encephalopathy.
•Significant pre\-existing psychiatric disease or intellectual disability such that the patient was mentally, cognitively, or functionally impaired prior to ICU admission.
•Patients with diagnosed neurodegenerative disease
•Patients with prior moderate to severe cognitive impairment (as recorded in the patient health records/medical notes).