Upper Extremity Theraband Exercises in Intensive Care Patients

Launched by IZMIR DEMOCRACY UNIVERSITY · May 15, 2024

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ClinConnect Summary

Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a special unit that deals with the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients who are in critical or severe condition and can not maintain their body balance. In this unit, appropriate examinations and treatments are applied to patients by experts using continuous monitoring and advanced technology 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Patients who require constant cardiovascular monitoring, need mechanical ventilation and renal support, have major metabolic disorders, have head trauma, chest injuries or other multiple injuries are generally admitted to this unit. ...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Being 18 years or older
• • Being conscious
• • Being clinically stable
• • Not dependent on mechanical ventilation
• • Being deemed suitable for physiotherapy and rehabilitation practices by an intensive care specialist
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Having psychiatric disorders and extreme agitation
• • Having cooperation disorders
• • Having the progressive neuromuscular disease
• • Having any trauma to the chest wall
• • Having any deformity of the thorax that will affect breathing
• • Having diseases that require constant use of sedative or analgesic agents
• • Being in shock stiuation
• • Having cardiac and respiratory instability (FiO₂\> 55%, PaO₂\< 65 mmHg, respiratory rate \>30 breaths/min, systolic blood pressure \>200 mmHg or \<80 mmHg, diastolic blood pressure \>100 mmHg or \<50 mmHg)

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