Low Levels of Physical Activity During Critical Illness and Weaning: The Evidence-Reality Gap.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physical rehabilitation can benefit critically ill patients during intensive care unit (ICU) admission, but routine clinical practice remains inconsistent nor examined in prolonged mechanical ventilation patients transferred to a specialist ventilator weaning unit (VWU). Behavioral mapping is a sampling approach that allows detailed reporting of physical activity profiles. The objective of this study was to characterize the physical activity profile of critically ill patients in a UK ICU and VWU.

Methods

Single-center, prospective observational study in a university teaching hospital. Patient observations, conducted Monday through Sunday from 08:30 am to 08:00 pm and for 1 minute every 10 minutes, included data points of patient location, people in attendance, and

SUBMITTER: Connolly BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6716208 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature