Mastering Intensive Care

How well do you understand what happens to your patients after they leave the ICU? Do you find out how they go and feed this back to your ICU team?   Most of you give excellent care to your patients whilst they are in the intensive care unit. No doubt this will be compassionate, appropriate, diligent, information-driven, holistic, team-based and communicative care. But when they leave the ICU, do you know what happens to them? Do you know if they actually leave the hospital? Do you know how they sleep, how long they remain confused for? What their final diagnosis on hospital discharge was? This is what A/Prof John Santamaria genuinely cares about. This is what he endeavours to find out. He is curious. John wants to know these things so he can better inform his patients before they leave the ICU and so he can keep his team up to date with what happened. Of course much of it is straightforward. The lady with pneumonia gradually got better and went home. The old man who had the laparotomy remained confused for 1