Critical care rehabilitation and early mobilisation

Critical care rehabilitation and early mobilisation: An emerging standard of care. Intensive and critical care nursing, April 2012, Vol. 28(2), p. 55-57.

Grapp, M.J. & McFetridge, B.

http://www.intensivecriticalcarenursing.com/article/S0964-3397(12)00015-8/fulltext

Critical care rehabilitation across the trajectory of recovery, beginning in the critical care unit and ending with recovery to an optimal level of health is presently a major focus of health care and research. After discharge from the critical care unit, rehabilitation is often begun in earnest. Although the focus of critical care is appropriately on stabilisation and survival, rehabilitation must also be a major part of the plan of care during these initial stages of care.