Get Moving: New Research Shows Early Mobility Better Than Bed Rest For ICU Patients
Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 16:28
in Health & Medicine
A critical care specialist who has reviewed recent studies of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and data from the Johns Hopkins Hospital concludes that the routine use of deep sedation and bed rest in ICU patients may be causing unnecessary and long-term physical impairment and poor quality of life after hospital discharge.
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