Exercise-based rehabilitation after hospital discharge for survivors of critical illness with intensive care unit-acquired weakness: A pilot feasibility trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The aim of this study was to investigate feasibility of exercise-based rehabilitation delivered after hospital discharge in patients with intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICU-AW).

Materials and methods

Twenty adult patients, mechanically ventilated for more than 48 hours, with ICU-AW diagnosis at ICU discharge were included in a pilot feasibility randomized controlled trial receiving a 16-session exercise-based rehabilitation program. Twenty-one patients without ICU-AW participated in a nested observational cohort study. Feasibility, clinical, and patient-centered outcomes were measured at hospital discharge and at 3 months.

Results

Intervention feasibility was demonstrated by high adherence and patient acceptability, and absence of adverse events, but t

SUBMITTER: Connolly B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4416081 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature