• George E Sayde, Peter A Shapiro, Ian Kronish, and Sachin Agarwal.
• Division of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 622 West 168(th) Street, PH 16-Center, New York, NY 10032, USA. Electronic address: ges2154@cumc.columbia.edu.
• J Crit Care. 2024 Mar 26; 82: 154798154798.

AbstractIntensive Care Unit (ICU) survivorship comprises a burgeoning area of critical care medicine, largely due to our improved understanding of and concern for patients' recovery trajectory, and efforts to mitigate the post-acute complications of critical illness. Expansion of care beyond hospitalization is necessary, yet evidence for post-ICU clinics remains limited and mixed, as both interventions and target populations studied to date are too heterogenous to meaningfully demonstrate efficacy. Here, we briefly present the existing evidence and limitations related to post-ICU clinics, identify cardiac arrest survivors as a unique ICU subpopulation warranting further investigation and treatment, and propose a clinical framework that addresses the multifaceted needs of this well-defined patient population.Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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