Factors influencing physical activity and rehabilitation in survivors of critical illness: a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies

SM Parry, LD Knight, B Connolly, C Baldwin… - Intensive care …, 2017 - Springer
Purpose To identify, evaluate and synthesise studies examining the barriers and enablers
for survivors of critical illness to participate in physical activity in the ICU and post-ICU …

Identifying barriers to delivering the awakening and breathing coordination, delirium, and early exercise/mobility bundle to minimize adverse outcomes for …

DK Costa, MR White, E Ginier, M Manojlovich… - Chest, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Improved outcomes are associated with the Awakening and Breathing
Coordination, Delirium, and Early exercise/mobility bundle (ABCDE); however …

An official American Thoracic Society/American College of Chest Physicians clinical practice guideline: liberation from mechanical ventilation in critically ill adults …

TD Girard, W Alhazzani, JP Kress… - American journal of …, 2017 - atsjournals.org
Background: Interventions that lead to earlier liberation from mechanical ventilation can
improve patient outcomes. This guideline, a collaborative effort between the American …

[HTML][HTML] The Sara Combilizer® as an early mobilisation aid for critically ill patients: A prospective before and after study

D McWilliams, G Atkins, J Hodson, C Snelson - Australian Critical Care, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Early mobility within the ICU is associated with a number of positive outcomes
including reductions in ICU and hospital length of stay and better functional recovery. The …

The economic and clinical impact of sustained use of a progressive mobility program in a neuro-ICU

JM Hester, PR Guin, GD Danek, JR Thomas… - Critical Care …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To investigate a progressive mobility program in a neurocritical care population
with the hypothesis that the benefits and outcomes of the program (eg, decreased length of …

Timing and amount of physical therapy treatment are associated with length of stay in the cardiothoracic ICU

AM Johnson, AN Henning, PE Morris, AGV Tezanos… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Significant variability exists in physical therapy early mobilization practice. The frequency of
physical therapy or early mobilization of patients in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit and …

Early mobilization after pediatric liver transplantation

N Tsuboi, H Nozaki, Y Ishida… - Journal of Pediatric …, 2017 - thieme-connect.com
Objective This study aims to evaluate the impact of early mobilization (EM) after pediatric
liver transplantation in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Design A 14-month …

Development of a neuro early mobilisation protocol for use in a neuroscience intensive care unit

MA Brissie, M Zomorodi, S Soares-Sardinha… - Intensive and Critical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective Through evaluation of the literature and working with a team of multidisciplinary
healthcare providers, our objective was to refine an interprofessional Neuro Early …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying barriers to delivering the ABCDE bundle to minimize adverse outcomes for mechanically ventilated patients: A systematic review

DK Costa, M White, E Ginier, M Manojlovich… - Chest, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Improved outcomes are associated with the Awakening, Breathing
Coordination, Delirium and Early mobility/exercise (ABCDE) bundle; however …

Awareness of success factors and barriers to early mobilisation of ICU patients

E Klooster, D dos Reis Miranda… - Netherlands Journal of …, 2017 - repub.eur.nl
Despite all the evidence underlining the benefits of early mobilisation in the ICU, barriers are
still common in clinical situations. Participants of two roundtable conferences were asked to …