The Implementation of Early Mobilization and Chest Physiotherapy on Weaning Rate of Prolong Weaning Patients.

The Implementation of Early Mobilization and Chest Physiotherapy on Weaning Rate of Prolong Weaning Patients. A Retrospective Study

Weaning from mechanical ventilator is essential to liberate patients to normal life. Prolong weaning is defined as failure of 3 times spontaneous breath trial (SBT) and requiring more than 7 days weaning from mechanical ventilation after first SBT. higher unsuccessful rate of extubation and higher mortality rate. Possible reasons to cause prolong weaning could be attributed to intensive care unit acquired weakness (ICU-AW) and poor lung hygiene. In order to solve these two problems and increase the weaning rate, early mobilization (EM) and chest physiotherapy (CPT) are considered as possible strategy to attain the goal. According to previous articles, lacking of control group and small sample size made it difficult to confirm the true effect of EM and CPT on prolong weaning patients. Thus, the aims of this articles are discussing the influence from EM with CPT on weaning rate and other hospitalization outcomes with larger sample sizes and control group.

Inclusion Criteria:

• The subjects' data which met the inclusion criteria are: 1. Age>20 2. Patient with or without 3. Patient who met the criteria of received physiotherapy (Figure 1.) 4. No usage of life support device such as ECMO and so on. 5. Continuous mechanical ventilator use over 21 days.

Exclusion Criteria:

• The exclusion criteria are 1. Patients diagnosed as brain death 2. Patients who were ventilator dependent before admission 3. Patients who were against advice discharge under critical condition. 4. Patients received emergency intervention during course. 5. Patient who didn't meet the criteria of received physiotherapy (Figure 1.).