Intensive care nurses should seek to identify those patients at risk of developing post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Commentary on: Wawer, E. Viprey, M. Floccard, B. Saoud, et al . (2020) Early detection of patients at risk of developing a post-traumatic disorder after an ICU stay. Critical Care Medicine 487(11):1572–9. The long-term consequences of a critical care admission are well established in the literature.1 A common psychological sequelae is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a process triggered by a significant trauma or event in a person’s life, such as critical illness. The documented prevalence of PTSD in critical care survivors varies widely; however, as many …