Technology to enhance physical rehabilitation of critically ill patients.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Needham, Dale M.; Truong, Alex D.; Fan, Eddy
- Source
- Critical Care Medicine. Oct2009 Supplement, Vol. 37, pS436-S441. 6p.
- Subject
- *CRITICAL care medicine complications
*MEDICAL technology research
*MEDICAL rehabilitation
*PHYSICAL therapy
*INTENSIVE care units
*CATASTROPHIC illness
*NEUROMUSCULAR diseases
*PATIENTS
- Language
- ISSN
- 0090-3493
The article discusses a research on the technology used to enhance the physical medicine and rehabilitation therapy in critically ill patients. It notes that critical illness may cause neuromuscular complications, which results from prolonged immobilization in patients within the intensive care unit (ICU). It notes that technologies related to physical medicine and rehabilitation are important in the prevention as well as in the treatment of neuromuscular complications.