ICUSteps: Understanding what has happened and what lies ahead is key to recovery

Summary

Going through critical illness and recovery is difficult for both patients and their relatives and will be unlike anything we've experienced before.

Not knowing what's normal and what might lie ahead in the journey makes coping with things that much harder, which is why honest, accurate, patient-centered information is fundamental to the work of ICUsteps.

Only people who've been through it really know what matters to patients and relatives in the position we were in. This understanding is what drives ICUSteps to produce a range of information resources that can help patients and relatives make sense of what has happened and cope with the road ahead.