Why the reluctance to meaningfully mobilize ventilated patients? "The answer my friend is Blowin' in the wind"

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1308-1309

  Clemmer, Terry P ^a  

^a LDS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive impairment; long term outcomes; mobility; sedation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CATHETER; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MOBILIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; SEDATION; VENTILATED PATIENT; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

EARLY AMBULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 84899479783     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000184     Document Type: Editorial

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