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Prolonged stay in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) can cause muscle weakness, physical deconditioning, recurrent symptoms, mood alterations and poor quality of life. Physiotherapy is probably the only treatment likely to increase in the short- and long-term care of the patients admitted to these units. Recovery of physical and respiratory functions, coming off mechanical ventilation, prevention of the...

* Corresponding author at: Omid Moradi Moghaddam, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Rasoul-Akram Medical Center Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Tel: +98-9391244560, Fax: +98-2166509059, E-mail: moradimoghadam@yahoo. com DOI: 10.5812/kowsar.22287523.2291 Copyright c 2011, ISRAPM, Published by Kowsar M. P. Co All rights reserved. Probiotics in Critically Ill Pat...

www.chestjournal.org CHEST / 137 / 1 / JANUARY, 2010 185 C about the risk of bleeding in critically ill patients are common. This apprehension may stem from a sense of responsibility for bleeding following procedures or anticoagulant therapy, or perhaps the fact that hemorrhage is often visible externa lly. In addition, the clinical laboratory may raise awareness by offering tests that clinicia...

Sedation in the intensive care unit (ICU) is a topic that has been frequently researched, and debate still exists as to what are the best sedative agents for critically ill patients. There is increasing interest in sleep and circadian rhythm disturbances in the ICU and how they may impact on outcomes. In addition to patient-related and ICU environmental factors that likely impact sleep and circ...

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE Stroke survivors may experience deficits and impairments of upper extremity (UE) function that limit their engagement in meaningful everyday occupations. It is important for occupational therapists to identify and test the effectiveness of interventions targeted to decrease UE learned nonuse, improve functional performance, and increase participation in one’s daily occupati...

Gut microflora contribute greatly to immune and nutritive functions and act as a physical barrier against pathogenic organisms across the gut mucosa. Critical illness disrupts the balance between host and gut microflora, facilitating colonization, overgrowth, and translocation of pathogens and microbial products across intestinal mucosal barrier and causing systemic inflammatory response syndro...

Five patients developed a severe motor and sensory polyneuropathy at the peak of critical illness (sepsis and multiorgan dysfunction complicating a variety of primary illnesses). Difficulties in weaning from the ventilator as the critical illness subsided and the development of flaccid and areflexic limbs were early clinical signs. However, electrophysiological studies, especially needle electr...