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The new frontiers of critical care emphasize the potential impact on patients and their loved ones of a critical illness, including long-lasting negative physical and psychological outcomes. The ICU has been clinician-centered in the past, but there is an increasing desire to make the ICU more patient and family-centered. This session explores many of the necessary components of a more humane, patient and family-centered ICU, using research and pioneering new perspectives to reframe the experience of the ICU. Three of the objectives of the session are to increase understanding of critical care physicians regarding important long term outcomes after critical illness; provide attendees with tools to implement interventions in their ICU; change the structure of guidance through the process of shared decision making.