Early ICU Standardized Rehabilitation Therapy for the Critically Injured Burn Patient

Abstract

This project was originally funded in order to conduct a multicenter, randomized controlled trial to determine whether early ICU rehabilitation, for Burn Intensive Care Unit (BICU)patients, would decrease hospital length of stay. The original protocol specified fifty subjects to be randomized at each of three sites for a total of 150 subjects. After twenty-three study subjects had been enrolled and the outpatient phase of testing was instituted, new data from a similar study was published in a medical ICU population that caused great discussion across the investigators. The results of that study in combination with the patient care delivery pattern within the original design of this study caused a shift in focus of this study. The original study was deemed phase I and closed. The second phase proposed to examine medical records within a large national hospital database to identify optimal care delivery patters. Minimizing the duration of immobilization of patients and developing strategies to lessen its impact are the goals of the second phase.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1105333

Entities

People

  • Peter E. Morris

Organizations

  • University of Kentucky

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  • Abdomen
  • Airway Management
  • Biomedical Research
  • Birds
  • Body Regions
  • Burns
  • Clinical Trials
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Disease Attributes
  • Health Services
  • Hospitalizations
  • Hospitals
  • Intervention
  • Kentucky
  • Law
  • Lower Extremity
  • Maryland
  • Medical Personnel
  • Muscular Diseases
  • Patient Care
  • Physical Therapy
  • Public Health
  • Rehabilitation
  • Skeletal Muscle
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  • Thorax
  • United States
  • Upper Extremity

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  • Medicine

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