Dr. Shaurya Taran is a Toronto-based critical care physician and clinician-scientist with specialized training in neurocritical care. His research focuses on improving long-term neuro-cognitive outcomes after critical illness.
For decades, survival has been one of the clearest measures of success in critical care. A patient arrives in the intensive care unit (ICU) critically ill, survives and eventually leaves the hospital. From the outside, it can look like a success story.
But what happens after they go home?