PICS, ICU-AW

Abstract

Today’s developments in emergency and intensive care medicine have dramatically improved the short-term outcomes of critically ill patients, but this has led to an increasing number of patients suffering from various sequelae even after ICU discharge, a situation that cannot be ignored. In 2012, the Society of Critical Care Medicine proposed the concept of ICU-acquired weakness (ICU-AW) and post-intensive care syndrome (PICS), which led to various reports on PICS/ICU-AW. It has been suggested that PICS and ICU-AW are also closely involved in septic patients and are covered as independent chapters in The Japanese Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2020. In this review, PICS and ICU-AW are first outlined, and then the clinical questions addressed in the guidelines are explained.