Progress of post-traumatic stress disorder in critical illness survivors / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

In recent years, the number of ICU survivor is ever-growing with the increase of cure rate. The survivors′ outcome has aroused more and more attentions from medical personnel. ICU survivors tend to experience lasting physical, psychological and cognitive injuries, the post-traumatic stress disorder is one kind of significant psychological injury associated with patients′ critical experience. This review aims to summarize relevant literatures, introduces the prevalence, risk factors, complications, and interventions of ICU survivors′ post-traumatic stress disorder symptom, in order to prevent ICU survivors from post-ICU psychological injury and improve their long-term outcome.