A thoughtful and important JACC State-of-the-Art Review reframes cardiogenic shock not as a single ICU event, but as a longitudinal survivorship journey.

The article highlights recovery, remission, native heart survival, PICS, HF GDMT optimization, and the need for structured multidisciplinary postshock clinics focused on function, cognition, quality of life, and recurrent risk after discharge.

A timely call to move from rescue alone to rescue plus recovery.