ReviewCritical care research and practice2020
Effectiveness, Safety, and Barriers to Early Mobilization in the Intensive Care Unit.
Review in Critical care research and practice, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The trial behind it
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Who cites it
42 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 106 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of Nurse-Led Early Mobility Protocols on the Outcomes of Critical Care Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nursing open · 2025Pooled it
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- Safety and efficacy of add-on robotic therapy for early mobilization in intermediate neurocritical care: a pilot study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Trial
- ASSOBRAFIR clinical practice guidelines in intensive care physical therapy: Rehabilitation strategies in critically ill adults.Brazilian journal of physical therapy · 2026Review
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- Early Mobilization Compliance as a Quality Indicator After Hip Fracture Surgery: An Observational Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Patient Mobilisation Attitudes and Beliefs Survey-Intensive Care Unit: Turkish Validation and Reliability Study.Nursing open · 2026Article
- Integrating Acute Polytrauma Rehabilitation Into Modern Trauma Systems: Benefits, Challenges, and Future Directions.Cureus · 2026Review
- Letter to the Editor Re: Moghib K, Ahmed MT, Ghanm TIE, et al. Optimal duration of postoperative drainage following burr-hole surgery for chronic subdural hematoma: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. Langenbeck's archives of Surgery. 2025;410:278. doi:10.1007/s00423-025-03853-y.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2025Article
- Characterisation and evaluation of early mobilisation interventions after emergency laparotomy surgery: a scoping review.BJA open · 2025Review
- Towards optimised nutrition therapy after critical illness: a position statement and research framework by the global research initiative on post-intensive care nutrition (GRIP) consortium.Critical care (London, England) · 2025Review
- Safety of early mobilisation in the intensive care unit: a prospective and multicentre cohort study protocol.BMJ open · 2025Article
- From Steps to Mobility Levels: Validating a Consumer-Grade Activity Monitor for Automated Recording of Patient Mobility in Hospitals.Applied clinical informatics · 2025Article
- Pressure Ulcers and Nursing-Led Mobilization Protocols in ICU Patients: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 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
- Early Mobilization of Critically Ill Patients: A Survey of Knowledge, Practices and Perceptions of Greek Physiotherapists.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Early Mobilization Protocols in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients: A Scoping Review of Strategies, Tools and Perceived Barriers.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Single institutional experience of geriatric maxillofacial trauma patients: a retrospective study.Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons · 2025Article
- Review
- Effect of educational program on nurses' performance regarding application of liberation bundle in pediatric intensive care unit.BMC nursing · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposePatients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) are generally confined to bed leading to limited mobility that may have detrimental effects on different body systems. Early mobilization prevents or reduces these effects and improves outcomes in patients following critical illness. The purpose of this review is to summarize different aspects of early mobilization in intensive care.
methodsElectronic databases of PubMed, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, and Scopus were searched using a combination of keywords. Full-text articles meeting the inclusion criteria were selected.
resultsFifty-six studies on various aspects such as the effectiveness of early mobilization in various intensive care units, newer techniques in early mobilization, outcome measures for physical function in the intensive care unit, safety, and practice and barriers to early mobilization were included.
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Registered trials
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