post-acute
Past the crisis
Post-acute describes the period of medical care following an acute illness, injury, or hospitalization.
Post-acute care includes rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing, and home health services—the bridge between intensive hospital treatment and full recovery or long-term management: She was transferred to a post-acute rehab center after her stroke.
Addiction treatment program
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- inpatientAdmitted overnight patient
- skilled nursingProfessional medical treatment services
physical therapy · occupational therapy · convalescence · discharge · step-down · subacute · reconditioning · reintegration
Formal entry into medical care
- stabilizationProcess of becoming steady
- ICUAcute care ward
- critical careTreatment for severe illness
- disease progressionHow illness worsens over time
medical management · monitoring · complication · readmission · follow-up · prognosis · sequelae · aftercare
Prolonged coronavirus illness effects
- sequelaePathological aftermath conditions
- fatigueWeariness from prolonged exertion
- brain fogCognitive sluggishness and confusion
- breathlessnessDifficulty drawing air
lingering symptoms · persistent · long-hauler · neurological · smell loss · inflammation · disability · syndrome
rehab
Addiction treatment program
skilled nursing · physical therapy · occupational therapy · convalescence · discharge · step-down · subacute · reconditioning · reintegration · mobility training
hospitalization
Formal entry into medical care
- stabilizationProcess of becoming steady
- ICUAcute care ward
- critical careTreatment for severe illness
disease progression · medical management · monitoring · complication · readmission · follow-up · prognosis · sequelae · aftercare · observation
long COVID
Prolonged coronavirus illness effects
- sequelaePathological aftermath conditions
- fatigueWeariness from prolonged exertion
- brain fogCognitive sluggishness and confusion
lingering symptoms · breathlessness · persistent · long-hauler · neurological · smell loss · inflammation · disability · syndrome · monitoring
post-acuteacute
Intensely severe or perceptive
critical · emergency · critical care · intensive · life-threatening