Effectiveness of physical rehabilitation interventions in critically ill patients-A protocol for an overview of systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Adult and pediatric patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) requiring invasive ventilatory support, sedation, and muscle blockade may present neuromusculoskeletal deterioration. Different physical rehabilitation interventions have been studied to evaluate their effectiveness in improving critically ill patients' outcomes. Given that many published systematic reviews (SRs) aims to determine the effectiveness of different types of physical rehabilitation interventions, it is necessary to group them systematically and assess the methodological quality of SRs to help clinicians make better evidence-based decisions. This overview of SRs (OoSRs) aims to map the existing evidence and to determine the effectiveness of physical rehabilitation interventions to improve n

SUBMITTER: Gutierrez-Arias R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10101388 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature