Standardized Rehabilitation and Hospital Length of Stay Among Patients With Acute Respiratory Failure: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Physical rehabilitation in the intensive care unit (ICU) may improve the outcomes of patients with acute respiratory failure.

Objective

To compare standardized rehabilitation therapy (SRT) to usual ICU care in acute respiratory failure.

Design, setting, and participants

Single-center, randomized clinical trial at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, North Carolina. Adult patients (mean age, 58 years; women, 55%) admitted to the ICU with acute respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation were randomized to SRT (n=150) or usual care (n=150) from October 2009 through May 2014 with 6-month follow-up.

Interventions

Patients in the SRT group received daily therapy until hospital discharge, consisting of passive range of motion, physical therapy, and

SUBMITTER: Morris PE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6657499 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature