Application and enlightenment of rehabilitation in intensive care unit

Abstract

Rehabilitation of patients with critical illness is raising worldwide attention, as it is key to promote patients’ recovery, reduce prevalence of disability, improve long-term quality of life and lighten the family financial and care burden. Rehabilitation of patients with critical illness contains basic rehabilitation (mobilization, nutrition rehabilitation, physical therapy, occupation therapy) and special rehabilitation (cardiac rehabilitation, pulmonary rehabilitation, neurological rehabilitation, psychological rehabilitation). This article summarized the application of rehabilitation in Intensive Care Unit. Rehabilitation of patients with critical illness needs a special rehabilitation team to implement. Early rehabilitation with normative standard and persistence is core to improve quality of life in patients survived from critical illness. Key words: Intensive care units; Severe rehabilitation; Application