Chinese expert consensus on subacute intensive rehabilitation management of neurocritically ill children (2021)

Abstract

In recent years, rehabilitation for children with critical illness as a new subspecialty combining pediatrics and rehabilitation medicine has launched in China. Most of the neurocritically ill children have serious dysfunctions and complications. They need not only early rehabilitation initiated in the pediatric intensive care unit, but also standard intensive rehabilitation management continued in the pediatric subacute intensive rehabilitation unit during the subacute period. Due to the bigger challenge, risks underlying in work and higher requirements on rehabilitation team in the pediatric subacute intensive rehabilitation unit, there are a limited number of pediatric subacute intensive rehabilitation units and professional rehabilitation teams in China. The lack of this important link of continuous chain of rehabilitation is not only to the disadvantage of patients' standardized rehabilitation management, but also cause a waste of health care resources of the pediatric intensive care unit and greatly increased the economic burden of families and society at the same time. Therefore, the Rehabilitation Group of Pediatrics Branch of Chinese Medical Association and the Physical Therapy Committee of Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, jointly set up an expert group to discuss and propose Chinese expert consensus on subacute intensive rehabilitation management of neurocritically ill children (2021), aiming to provide basic working ideas and standard reference for medical institutions that have established subacute intensive rehabilitation units.