ArticleMethodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal
A tool to assess mobility status in critically ill patients: the Perme Intensive Care Unit Mobility Score.
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- Rehabilitation in the Intensive Care Unit for Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Neurocritical care · 2026Pooled it
- A Core Set of Outcome Measures to Assess Physical Function for Adults Participating in Physical Therapist Treatment in the Hospital: A Clinical Practice Guideline.Physical therapy · 2025Guideline
- Randomized clinical trial of ventilator liberation with pressure support ventilation versus therapist-implement patient-specific weaning in prolonged weaning patients via tracheostomy.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Trial
- Early Cardiac Rehabilitation for Critically Ill Patients With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Early rehabilitation for critically ill adult patients: protocol for an umbrella review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2026Review
- Due to Limitations in the Feasibility of the Perme Score, it should not be Used to Classify Muscle Weakness in Intensive Care Unit Patients.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2025Article
- Perme Score and Machine Learning for Detecting ICU-acquired Weakness: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2025Article
- Effect of Early and Progressive Rehabilitation Protocol on Fatigue, Functional Outcome, and Kinesiophobia in Patients on Non-invasive Ventilation: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2025Article
- Postoperative Recovery from a Cardiac Anesthesiologists' Perspective.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2025Article
- A comprehensive assessment tool of acute-phase rehabilitation is associated with clinical outcomes in patients after cardiovascular surgery.Heart and vessels · 2025Article
- Behavior of the Perme Scale and Correlation with Clinical Outcomes in the Postoperative of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2025Article
- Reliability and Validity of the Japanese Perme ICU Mobility Score: An Initial Psychometric Evaluation.Progress in rehabilitation medicine · 2025Article
- Evidence of the use of the Perme Intensive Care Unit Mobility Score in hospitalized adults: a scoping review.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2025Article
- Factors affecting early mobilization among critically Ill patients in Southern West Bank Hospitals.PloS one · 2025Article
- Mobilization in Neurocritical Care: Challenges and Opportunities.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2024Review
- Study of the intensive care unit activity scale in the early rehabilitation of patients after direct cardiac surgery.World journal of clinical cases · 2024Article
- Outcome Measures to Evaluate Functional Recovery in Survivors of Respiratory Failure: A Scoping Review.CHEST critical care · 2024Article
- Application of the Perme Score to assess mobility in patients with COVID-19 in inpatient units.Canadian journal of respiratory therapy : CJRT = Revue canadienne de la therapie respiratoire : RCTR · 2023Article
- Supporting Decision-Making About Patient Mobility in the Intensive Care Unit Nurse Work Environment: Work Domain Analysis.JMIR nursing · 2022Article
- Analysis of mobility level of COVID-19 patients undergoing mechanical ventilation support: A single center, retrospective cohort study.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
The benefits of early mobilization for adult patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) are reduced length of ICU and hospital stays, fewer readmissions to the ICU, decreased duration of mechanical ventilation, fewer days of detrimental bedrest, minimal adverse or unsafe events, and improved walking distance. Because there are no available tools to specifically measure mobility status of patients in the ICU setting, there is an urgent need to create a reliable tool that measures and standardizes the assessment of mobility status for these patients. The purpose of this study was to describe the development of this novel ICU-specific tool to assess a patient's mobility status, examine the initial reliability of the tool, and address its clinical application. The Perme ICU Score was quickly and easily administered by physical therapists. Overall, the inter-rater agreement was 94%. A total of six items had kappa values of < .6, and these low scores may have been the result of the procedure to collect inter-rater scores, wherein one rater assisted with the activity while a second rater observed. In order to improve reliability, the authors developed directions to standardize the assessment. The Perme ICU Mobility Score is a tool developed to measure the patient's mobility status starting with the ability to follow commands and culminating in the distance walked in two minutes. Preliminary data suggest that the validity of this tool is supported by expert concurrence, its overall reliability is high, and its clinical use is acceptable.
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