Are in-hospital acute stress symptoms associated with impairment in cognition 1 year after intensive care unit admission?
In-hospital acute stress symptoms may be a potentially modifiable risk factor for greater impairment in cognitive functioning post-ICU. Early interventions for at-risk ICU survivors may improve longer-term outcomes.
Cutaneous burn injury and the loss of the skin barrier function contribute, in part, to the myocardial inflammation which, in turn, contributes to myocardial contractile dysfunction that is characteristic of major burn injury.