“Your risk of mortality at six months if you have delirium is 300 per cent higher than those who do not, so we have to do better.Prince Charles Hospital Critical Care Research Group director Professor John Fraser She knows one day she’ll probably wind up in ICU again and hopes the experience will be less stressful.“It just played around with my head a lot. The noises and the visions of dark figures and just scary things.
If rolled out in Australian hospitals, the beds would likely cost between $300,000 and $400,000 to build – but Mr Fraser believes they’ll make intensive care cheaper in the long run, by reducing the length of time patients stay in ICU.
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