Respiratory failure & ventilation
Daily variation in physical activity during mechanical ventilation and stay in the intensive care unit
Authors' conclusion
ICU patients on mechanical ventilation were primarily sedentary. Physical activity of mechanically ventilated patients seems to be related to nurse- and/or physiotherapy-initiated activities.
Study context
- Population
- Mechanically ventilated patients during intensive care unit (ICU) stay
- Participants
- 39 participants
- Outcome
- Objectively assessed type, quantity and daily variation of physical activity (thigh- and chest-worn accelerometer)
Methodological detailstwo mixed medical/surgical ICUs, accelerometer-measured
- Two mixed medical/surgical ICUs
- Accelerometer-measured
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Time spent per 24 h
- Lying in bed
- 20/24 h
- Sitting
- 3 h
- Standing, moving, walking or bicycling
- 1 h
- Intervals of non-lying time
- 9.00 to 12.00 and 18.00 to 21.30
- Peaks of non-lying time
- 9.00 and 18.00
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Daily variation in physical activity during mechanical ventilation and stay in the intensive care unit. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. Published 25 January 2023. doi:10.
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