Scales to measure post intensive care syndrome, a scoping review.

INTRODUCTION

Post Intensive Care Syndrome is a recently studied syndrome that affects between 50% and 70% of patients admitted to the ICU, its detection is complex due to the great variety of affected components.

OBJECTIVE

To determine the most widely used assessment instruments for the detection of post-intensive care syndrome, according to the evidence in the last 5 years.

METHODOLOGY

A scoping review was carried out in the databases: Academic Search, ScienceDirect, Scielo, Biblioteca Virtual en Salud, Medline, and Springer Link, with terms «Postintensive care syndrome» and «Post-intensive care syndrome». This review included 22 articles that met the criteria of: research or review typology, English, Spanish or Portuguese language, with access to the full text and published between 2015 and 2020.

CONCLUSIONS

Most of the instruments used to measure post-intensive care syndrome are divided according to the components of physical affectation (the Medical Research Council scale, the Katz index and the Barthel index); cognitive (Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status, and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test); and mental (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Beck's anxiety test, Depression Inventory Second Edition scale and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome-14 scale). In addition, two tools were found that measure the event in its entirety with its three components, such as the Healthy Aging Brain Care Monitor and the Post-Intensive Care Syndrome Questionnaire.