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ReviewCritical care science2025

Protocolized strategies to encourage early mobilization of critical care patients: challenges and success.

Patrick Sepúlveda, Adrián Gallardo, Ricardo Arriagada, Eduardo González, Patricia Rieken Macedo Rocco, Denise Battaglini

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Review in Critical care science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Patrick SepúlvedaServicio de Medicina Física y Rehabilitación, Hospital San Juan de Dios - La Serena, Chile.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9790-9074
Adrián GallardoCuidados Respiratorios, Sanatorio Clínica Modelo de Morón - Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9729-4839
Ricardo ArriagadaUnidad de Cuidados Intensivos, Hospital Las Higueras - Talcahuano, Chile.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-8556-9713
Eduardo GonzálezUnidad de Cuidados Intensivos, Hospital San Pablo - Coquimbo, Chile.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-7737-0687
Patricia Rieken Macedo RoccoLaboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1412-7136
Denise BattagliniDepartment of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, University of Genoa -Genoa, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6895-6442

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Technological advances and interprofessional teamwork have significantly improved survival rates of critically ill patients. However, this progress has also introduced new challenges, such as intensive care unit-acquired weakness, which can contribute to postintensive care syndrome. Both conditions are associated with increased morbidity and mortality, prolonged length of hospital stay, higher social and health care costs, and reduced quality of life for patients and their families. Timely physical therapy plays a crucial role in mitigating intensive care unit-acquired weakness and postintensive care syndrome. Key recommendations for the effective rehabilitation of patients in the intensive care unit include education and training, communication and collaboration, patient screening, planning of activities, distribution of functions focused on teamwork, patient cooperation, safety assessments, patient positioning, functional mobilization, and documentation of outcomes. This narrative review aims to update the current understanding of the influence of physical therapy and critical care teamwork on intensive care unit patients and to provide evidence-based recommendations for promoting early mobilization in the intensive care unit setting.

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Critical CareCritical IllnessEarly AmbulationIntensive Care UnitsPhysical Therapy ModalitiesHumansLength of StayMuscle WeaknessPatient Care Team

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PMID39936773
PMCPMC11805459

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