Critical care patients on mechanical ventilation who received early physical and occupational therapy showed significantly lower rates of cognitive impairment 1 year after hospital discharge compared ...

Tan Tock Seng Hospital is deploying occupational therapists inside its intensive care unit (ICU). The move is aimed at ...

Indianapolis – Researchers from Indiana University Indianapolis, Regenstrief Institute and the IU School of Medicine’s Indiana Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center – led by Babar Khan, M.D., M.S., ...

Long-term complications of critical illness include intensive care unit (ICU)-acquired weakness and neuropsychiatric disease — both of which could be related to the immobilisation caused by sedation.

For many patients recovering from COVID-19, discharge from the hospital is only the first battle in their recovery. Patients are left with symptoms that range from decreased endurance, poor strength, ...

For many people who have been admitted to a hospital intensive care unit, recovery does not end once they are released to go home. For most, life after an ICU stay is filled with unexpected challenges ...

Interrupting the sedation of critically ill patients to offer brief physical and occupational therapy may improve their ability to function independently when discharged from hospital, researchers ...

Tanita Brown has been an occupational therapist for over 20 years, with experience in the treatment of individuals with neurological conditions including spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — At least half of all patients who survive treatment in an intensive care unit will experience at least one of a triad of problems associated with post-intensive care syndrome, or PICS, ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- After three weeks in an intensive-care unit, an 8-year-old boy injured in a sailboat accident is recovering in a regular room at Children's Hospital here. It's a sign of significant ...