Students' Device Allows ICU Patients to Get Back on Their Feet
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 23:21
in Health & Medicine
Johns Hopkins undergraduates have designed and built a device to enable critically ill intensive care unit patients to leave their beds and walk while remaining tethered to essential life-support equipment. The invention allows doctors to better understand whether carefully supervised rehabilitation, as opposed to continuous sedation and bed rest, can improve the recovery of intensive care patients.