Depressive Symptoms After Critical Illness

Trajectories of depressive symptoms after hip fracture.

BACKGROUND Hip fracture is often complicated by depressive symptoms in older adults. We sought to characterize trajectories of depressive symptoms arising after hip fracture and examine their relationship with functional outcomes and walking ability. We also investigated clinical and psychosocial predictors of these trajectories. METHOD We enrolled 482 inpatients, aged ⩾60 years, who were adm...

Long-term cognitive impairment after critical illness.

BACKGROUND Survivors of critical illness often have a prolonged and disabling form of cognitive impairment that remains inadequately characterized. METHODS We enrolled adults with respiratory failure or shock in the medical or surgical intensive care unit (ICU), evaluated them for in-hospital delirium, and assessed global cognition and executive function 3 and 12 months after discharge with t...

Long-term neurocognitive function after critical illness.

BACKGROUND Until relatively recently, critical care practitioners have focused on the survival of their patients and not on long-term outcomes. The incidence of chronic neurocognitive dysfunction has been underestimated and underreported, and only recently has it been studied in critically ill patients. However, neurocognitive outcomes have been the subject of extensive investigation in other m...

Electrolytes and depressive illness.

Depressive Illness in India1

"Melancholia is one of the great words of Psychiatry. Suffering many mutations, at one time the guardian of outworn schemes of errant theories, presently misused, cavilled at, dispossessed, it has endured into our own times, as part of medical terminology no less than of common sense" (Lewis,, 1931). A disease of antiquity, depression is £.n illness with a long ancestry. As in other instances, ...