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25 January 2021 - 09:43 Dr Sarah Boshoff is studying the effect of an ICU admission on a patient’s mental health by identifying experiences among critical care survivors who have gone on to develop post-traumatic stress disorder. Image: Suppplied Psychiatrists call it post-ICU syndrome, or the development of mental illness after admission to an intensive care unit, which is common in patients around the world. “In addition to the experience of going into ICU, SA patients live in a society with high levels of crime and trauma and many of us have symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),” said Dr Sarah Boshoff, a psychiatry registrar studying the triggers of PTSD in ICUs. ....