Life Beyond ICU

Life Beyond ICU

Post-Intensive Care Syndrome & Recovery

The ICU saves lives. What happens next often decides its quality.

Most critical care ends at discharge. But for patients, the real battle is often just beginning — and for clinicians, it’s the phase with the least guidance and the highest stakes.

What’s inside

• General post-ICU complications — the predictable pitfalls that follow critical illness, and how to anticipate them
• Electrolyte and metabolic derangements — recognising and correcting the imbalances that linger long after the crisis
• System-by-system recovery protocols — neurological, cardiac, respiratory, renal, and beyond, mapped for the post-ICU trajectory
• Post-intensive-care syndrome (PICS) — the full spectrum: physical, cognitive, and psychological sequelae, and how to manage them together rather than in isolation
• Multidisciplinary, integrated guidance — bridging the handoff between ICU discharge and true recovery, built for real clinical teams

Written by a practicing Chief Intensivist, with contributions from senior critical care and rehabilitation specialists, and mentored by a leading intensivist — this book closes the gap that most critical care training leaves open.

Essential reading for intensivists, physicians, and allied specialists managing patients after critical illness.