Tag: rehabilitation
Animal-assisted Activity in the ICU
Animals are being introduced into hospital settings in ever-increasing numbers. Emerging literature suggests that incorporating trained animals to assist with medical care and rehabilitation therapies can promote patient... read more
An Expert Consensus Statement on Physical Rehabilitation After Hospital Discharge
A consensus-based framework for optimal physical therapy (PT) after hospital discharge is proposed. Future research should focus on feasibility testing of this framework, developing risk stratification tools and validating... read more
Can Early Rehabilitation on the General Ward After an ICU Stay Reduce Hospital Length of Stay in Survivors of Critical Illness?
An early rehabilitation program in survivors of critical illness led to an earlier discharge from the hospital, improved functional recovery, and was also cost-effective and safe. In the per-protocol analysis, length of... read more
COPD Patients Who Live Alone are Less Active
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who live with a spouse, partner, or other caregiver are more active than patients who live alone, and are also more likely to participate in pulmonary rehabilitation... read more
Anabolic and Anticatabolic Agents in Critical Care
Profound metabolic derangements occur in critically ill patients; this hypermetabolic response is a major contributor to adverse outcomes. Despite the pharmacological therapies currently available to counteract this devastating... read more
Low Levels of Physical Activity During Critical Illness and Weaning
Physical rehabilitation can benefit critically ill patients during ICU admission, but routine clinical practice remains inconsistent nor examined in prolonged mechanical ventilation patients transferred to a specialist ventilator... read more
Muscle Mass and Physical Recovery in ICU: Innovations for targeting of Nutrition and Exercise
New innovative techniques are demonstrating promise to target recovery from PICS utilizing a combination of objective LBM and metabolic assessment, targeted nutrition interventions, personalized exercise interventions for... read more
Draft quality standard on rehabilitation after a critical illness
New guideline to be published in 2017. We've published a draft quality standard on rehabilitation after a critical illness: Quality standard consultation. You can now comment on this draft quality standard. Closing date... read more
Addition of vitamin B12 to exercise training improves cycle ergometer endurance in advanced COPD patients
Vitamin B12 is essential in the homocysteine, mitochondrial, muscle and hematopoietic metabolisms, and its effects on exercise tolerance and kinetics adjustments of oxygen consumption (V'O2p) in rest-to-exercise transition... read more
Management of COPD exacerbations: a European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society guideline
This document provides clinical recommendations for treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation. This recommendation places a high value on improving clinical outcomes and a lower value on the burden... read more
Factors influencing physical activity and rehabilitation in survivors of critical illness
Eighty-nine papers were included. Five major themes and 28 sub-themes were identiļ¬ed, encompassing: (1) patient physical and psychological capability to perform physical activity, including delirium, sedation, illness severity,... read more
Traumatic brain injuries in older adults
Patients with TBI represented 45% of all trauma cases meeting TARN inclusion criteria. Falls at home accounted for most TBIs. Most had moderate/severe TBI, yet over half made a good recovery on GOS. Our data indicate that... read more
Researchers hope to speed recovery of critically ill patients with bikes in their beds
An experiment in the intensive care unit of The Ottawa Hospital aims to test whether critically ill patients can get back on their feet faster by cycling in bed. As part of the randomized clinical.... read more
