Risk factors and prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder in Intensive Care Unit patients
Introduction Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with exposure to an actual death or serious injury threatening event , as is the example of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patient, and it is characterized by dissociative, avoidance, cognitive and mood symptoms. (1) It is known that IC...
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Introduction
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with exposure to an actual death or serious injury threatening event , as is the example of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patient, and it is characterized by dissociative, avoidance, cognitive and mood symptoms. (1) It is known that ICU patients may develop PTSD with an incidence rate of 10%. (2)
Objectives
Comprehend the correlation between PTSD development and ICU care and its risk factors and ways of prevention.
Methods
The authors conducted a literature review by searching the Pubmed database using the keywords PTSD; ICU; Risk Factors; Prevention.
Results
The studies show that the risk factors are associated to: Intensive care like mechanic ventilation, sedation (like using midazolam, lorazepam or opioid); individual’s characteristics like being younger than 50 years old, personal history of depression, feminine gender and lower levels of cortisol, and experiencing cognitive alterations, as hallucinations, delirium, amnesia and delirant memory, or anxiety while under ICU care. (1,3,4,5) As a form of prevention non pharmacological measures are the most consensual. Pharmacologic hypothesis should be applied in the first 6 hours of trauma and could be hydrocortisone, as it is thought to be a protective factor for memory consolidation, but the conclusions are not consistent.(6)
Conclusions
There are a lot of people that develop PTSD in the ICU context who are not diagnosed and therefore not treated. In this way, it is necessary to identify the patients with more risk factors, apply the non-pharmacological measures and evaluate the person after discharge.
Disclosure
No significant relationships.
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| spelling | doaj.art-3c09e675917e4a6ca5b02d2d7b01e7a02023-11-17T05:06:53ZengCambridge University PressEuropean Psychiatry0924-93381778-35852022-06-0165S675S67510.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1736Risk factors and prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder in Intensive Care Unit patientsI. Caldas0S. Vieira1I. Vidó2Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Psiquiatria Geral, Lisboa, PortugalCentro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Psiquiatria Geral, Lisboa, PortugalCentro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Psiquiatria Geral, Lisboa, Portugal Introduction Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with exposure to an actual death or serious injury threatening event , as is the example of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patient, and it is characterized by dissociative, avoidance, cognitive and mood symptoms. (1) It is known that ICU patients may develop PTSD with an incidence rate of 10%. (2) Objectives Comprehend the correlation between PTSD development and ICU care and its risk factors and ways of prevention. Methods The authors conducted a literature review by searching the Pubmed database using the keywords PTSD; ICU; Risk Factors; Prevention. Results The studies show that the risk factors are associated to: Intensive care like mechanic ventilation, sedation (like using midazolam, lorazepam or opioid); individual’s characteristics like being younger than 50 years old, personal history of depression, feminine gender and lower levels of cortisol, and experiencing cognitive alterations, as hallucinations, delirium, amnesia and delirant memory, or anxiety while under ICU care. (1,3,4,5) As a form of prevention non pharmacological measures are the most consensual. Pharmacologic hypothesis should be applied in the first 6 hours of trauma and could be hydrocortisone, as it is thought to be a protective factor for memory consolidation, but the conclusions are not consistent.(6) Conclusions There are a lot of people that develop PTSD in the ICU context who are not diagnosed and therefore not treated. In this way, it is necessary to identify the patients with more risk factors, apply the non-pharmacological measures and evaluate the person after discharge. Disclosure No significant relationships. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933822017369/type/journal_articlepreventionPTSDrisk factorICU |
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| title_short | Risk factors and prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder in Intensive Care Unit patients |
| title_sort | risk factors and prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder in intensive care unit patients |
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