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Surviving Discharge

by The Life After ICU Initiative

Surviving critical illness is only the beginning. Hosted by ICU survivor, author, and advocate Michael Paul Patrick, SURVIVING DISCHARGE explores life after intensive care: physical recovery, memory, mental health, relationships, and the questions nobody prepared you to ask. Through honest stories and conversations with survivors, families, clinicians, and researchers, we make sense of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) and the road beyond discharge. A Life After ICU Initiative Podcast. Building the bridge from intensive care to life after. What helped you build your bridge?

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Episodes

  1. Episode 2: "What is PICS?"

    What is Post-Intensive Care Syndrome—and why does it matter after you leave the hospital? In Episode 2 of SURVIVING DISCHARGE, Michael Paul Patrick is joined by Dr. Brian Peach for a conversation about PICS and life after critical illness. Following Michael’s personal story in the premiere, this...

  2. Episode 1: “The Week I Don’t Remember"

    There are days of Michael Paul Patrick’s life that everyone around him remembers except him. In November 2024, a car accident led to cervical spine surgery. During extubation, he aspirated, developed aspiration pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and spent a week in a coma....

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Surviving critical illness is only the beginning. Hosted by ICU survivor, author, and advocate Michael Paul Patrick, SURVIVING DISCHARGE explores life after intensive care: physical recovery, memory, mental health, relationships, and the questions nobody prepared you to ask. Through honest stories and conversations with survivors, families, clinicians, and researchers, we make sense of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) and the road beyond discharge. A Life After ICU Initiative Podcast. Building the bridge from intensive care to life after. What helped you build your bridge?

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Surviving critical illness is only the beginning. Hosted by ICU survivor, author, and advocate Michael Paul Patrick, SURVIVING DISCHARGE explores life after intensive care: physical recovery, memory, mental health, relationships, and the questions nobody prepared you to ask. Through honest stories...

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