Dan Wu, Xin Geng, Hao Wu, Xiaohong Liu, Xiaobin Liu, Lina Ma, Yang Li, Xiu Liang, Qingping Lan, Yuxia Wang, Xiangyu Wang, Yonghong Wang, Shufang Shi, Xiaohong Zhang
BACKGROUND: Pneumonia has a high incidence in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients and lacks effective treatments. Early mobilization (EM) may be a potentially effective treatment. AIM: To explore the impact of EM on TBI-related pneumonia in the neurosurgical intensive care unit (NICU). METHOD: This study was a historical control study. 100 TBI patients who received EM intervention were prospectively included as the experimental group (EM cohort), and 250 TBI patients were retrospectively included as the control group...
April 19, 2024: Nursing in Critical Care