A new study shows the effectiveness of early physical therapy in a medical intensive care unit. The length of stay for a group of respiratory-failure patients who received mobility therapy within 48 ...

Nowadays physiotherapists are an integral part of a multidisciplinary team in most of the intensive care units (ICU) in Bangladesh. Doctors and hospital management realising the importance of ...

In a surprising about-face, researchers have determined that a protocol providing physical therapy to ICU patients with acute respiratory failure did not shorten hospital length of stay. The study, ...

A larger proportion of critically ill patients admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are usually immobile. Dr Gum Ephrem Grace, an anaesthesiologist, says immobility in itself is a disease and can ...

Interrupting the sedation of critically ill patients to offer brief physical and occupational therapy may improve their ability to function independently when discharged from hospital, researchers ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . On the third day following ICU discharge, researchers collected the Physical Function Test for ICU-scored ...

DALLAS, Texas — Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can participate in cognitive therapy, according to a pilot study presented here at the American Geriatrics Society's 2013 Annual Scientific ...

The use of intensive insulin therapy in hospitalized patients is a common practice among many clinicians. However, new guidelines released from the American College of Physicians suggest that there is ...

A team of researchers has received funding from the NIH to investigate the effectiveness of online therapy in improving cognitive health among older ICU survivors experiencing depression. (1 Trusted ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The results of the first study to show the effectiveness of early physical therapy in a medical intensive care unit (ICU) are being presented today (Oct. 23) by a researcher from ...