Early Mobilization in the ICU
- Interventional
- Recruiting
- NCT01777035
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Early Mobilization in the ICU
To study all ICU patients with an independent baseline functional status , who experience a critical illness requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation evaluating long-term cognitive and executive function and long term cost effectiveness in survivors who required mechanical ventilation.
Gender
All
Age Group
18 Years and up
Accepting Healthy Volunteers?
No
- Intubated and MV > 24, < 96 hours
- Baseline Barthel Index Functional Score > 70, functional at home
Exclusion Criteria:
- Rapidly changing neurological conditions (e.g. stroke)
- Cardiac arrest as cause for respiratory failure
- Elevated intracranial pressure
- Pregnancy (due to inability to provide continuous fetal monitoring)
- Terminal condition (life expectancy < 6 months)
- Traumatic brain injury, multiple limb fractures, pelvic fractures,
- Severe chronic pain syndrome on admission
- Respiratory Failure