YU Jiadan 1,2,3 , YU Pengming 1,2 , WEI Qingchuan 1,2 , JIA Chengsen 1,2 , XIE Wei 1,2 , SU Jianhua 1,2 , YANG Mengxuan 1,2 , ZHOU Yaxin 1,2 , LI Lei 1,2 , JIANG Hua 1,2 , WANG Jiao 1,2 , HE Chengqi 1,2
  • 1. Rehabilitation Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China;
  • 2. Rehabilitation Medicine Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China;
  • 3. School of Rehabilitation Sciences, West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China;
HE Chengqi, Email: hxkfhcq2015@126.com
Export PDF Favorites Scan Get Citation

With the continuous development of critical care medicine, the survival rate of critical ill patients continues to increase. However, the residual dysfunction will have a far-reaching impact on the burden on patients, families, and health-care systems, and will significantly increase the demand of the follow-up rehabilitation treatment. Critical illness rehabilitation intervenes patients who are still in the intensive care unit (ICU). It can prevent complications, functional deterioration and dysfunction, improve functional activity and quality of life, shorten the time of mechanical ventilation, the length of ICU stay and hospital stay, and also reduce medical expenses. Experts at home and abroad believe that early rehabilitation of critical ill patients is safe and effective. So rehabilitation should be involved in critical ill patients as early as possible. However, the promotion of this model is still limited by the setting of safety parameters, the ICU culture, the lack of critical rehabilitation professionals, and the physiological and mental cognitive status of patients. Rehabilitation treatment in ICU is constantly being practiced at home and abroad.

Citation: YU Jiadan, YU Pengming, WEI Qingchuan, JIA Chengsen, XIE Wei, SU Jianhua, YANG Mengxuan, ZHOU Yaxin, LI Lei, JIANG Hua, WANG Jiao, HE Chengqi. Study on critical illness rehabilitation. West China Medical Journal, 2018, 33(10): 1207-1212. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.201807050 Copy

  • Previous Article

    New strategies in the brain rehabilitation: from extremity-orientated to brain-focused and to brain-limbs modulation
  • Next Article

    Evidence-based early and accurate diagnosis and early intervention in cerebral palsy