Tag: rehabilitation
Commencing out of bed rehabilitation in critical care – what influences clinical decision-making?
These results confirm previous observational reports that the presence of an endotracheal tube (ETT) remains a major obstacle to the provision of rehabilitation for critically ill patients. Despite rehabilitation being effective... read more
Functional Recovery in Critically Ill Children, the “WeeCover” Multicenter Study
This study provides new information regarding functional outcomes and the factors that influence meaningful aspects of functioning in critically ill children. Identifying patients at greatest risk and modifiable targets for... read more
Effect of In-Bed Leg Cycling and Electrical Stimulation of the Quadriceps on Global Muscle Strength in Critically Ill Adults
In this single-center randomized clinical trial involving patients admitted to the ICU, adding early in-bed leg cycling exercises and electrical stimulation of the quadriceps muscles to a standardized early rehabilitation... read more
Sepsis is a Preventable Public Health Problem
There is a paradigm shift happening for sepsis. Sepsis is no longer solely conceptualized as problem of individual patients treated in emergency departments and intensive care units but also as one that is addressed as public... read more
Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Plants With Purpose
The benefits of access to nature have been shown in a variety of settings and contexts, notes Roger S. Ulrich, an international leader in evidence-based healthcare design and a consultant to Legacy Health’s therapeutic... read more
Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction in COPD. What We Know and Can Do for Our Patients
Skeletal muscle dysfunction occurs in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and affects both ventilatory and nonventilatory muscle groups. It represents a very important comorbidity that is associated... read more
Dysphagia – A Common, Transient Symptom in Critical Illness Polyneuropathy
Dysphagia is frequent among patients with critical illness polyneuropathy treated in the ICU. Old age, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the mode of mechanical ventilation, the prevalence of tracheal tubes, and behavioral... read more
ICU-Acquired Weakness and Recovery from Critical Illness
Kress and Hall propose that rehabilitation of critically ill patients should begin in the ICU. The authors name sepsis, systemic inflammation, multiorgan failure, hyperglycemia, glucocorticoid use, and female sex as risk... read more
Pediatric Patient and Family Perspective on Pediatric ICU Experience & Survivorship
In this video a 7-year old who spent 662 days in the PICU after a severe burn injury requiring ECMO sits down with her parents to detail their journey with critical illness and recovery during the 6th Annual Johns Hopkins... read more
The Safety of a Novel Early Mobilization Protocol Conducted by ICU Physicians
There are numerous barriers to early mobilization (EM) in a resource-limited intensive care unit (ICU) without a specialized team or an EM culture, regarding patient stability while critically ill or in the presence of medical... read more
What Role Do Dogs Play in ICUs?
Dr. Megan Hosey PhD speaks about how dogs in the ICU can help lessen patients' pain & make them more hopeful. Getting people out of bed in intensive care units, even when they're being mechanically ventilated, is associated... read more
Bike Rehab is Helping Critical Care Patients Along the Road to Recovery
Getting on the bike is a stepping stone into rehabilitation - you see that bike and you know then that you're getting better. You know you're not just going to lie in that bed and vegetate. So successful was the exercise... read more
Clinicians’ Perceptions of Rationales for Rehabilitative Exercise in a Critical Care Setting
Rehabilitative exercise for critically ill patients may have many benefits; however, it is unknown what intensive care unit (ICU) clinicians perceive to be important rationale for the implementation of rehabilitative exercise... read more
Animal-assisted Intervention in the ICU: A Tool for Humanization
The combination of an aging population and advances in critical care medicine is resulting in a growing number of survivors of critical illness. Survivors' descriptions of their stay in an intensive care unit (ICU) are frequently... read more
