• Brad W Butcher, Tammy L Eaton, Ashley A Montgomery-Yates, and Carla M Sevin.
• Brad W. Butcher is an associate professor and director of the Critical Illness Recovery Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• Am. J. Crit. Care. 2022 Jul 1; 31 (4): 324328324-328.

AbstractIntensive care unit follow-up clinics are becoming an increasingly widespread intervention to facilitate the physical, cognitive, psychiatric, and social rehabilitation of survivors of critical illness who have post-intensive care syndrome. Developing and sustaining intensive care unit follow-up clinics can pose significant challenges, and clinics need to be tailored to the physical, personnel, and financial resources available at a given institution. Although no standard recipe guarantees a successful intensive care unit aftercare program, emerging clinics will need to address a common set of hurdles, including securing an adequate space; assembling an invested, multidisciplinary staff; procuring the necessary financial, information technology, and physical stuff; using the proper screening tools to identify patients most likely to benefit and to accurately identify disabilities during the visit; and selling it to colleagues, hospital administrators, and the community at large.©2022 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.

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