How to promote pulmonary health with kinetic therapy

Nurs Manage. 2000 Jan;31(1):38-40. doi: 10.1097/00006247-200001000-00021.

Abstract

Kinetic Therapy can improve outcomes for immobilized patients, but the treatment can be costly. Using a protocol designed by critical care nurses, nurses in your units can provide cost-effective Kinetic Therapy.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Bed Rest / adverse effects*
  • Beds*
  • Clinical Protocols
  • Critical Care / methods*
  • Decision Trees*
  • Humans
  • Motion Therapy, Continuous Passive / instrumentation
  • Motion Therapy, Continuous Passive / methods
  • Motion Therapy, Continuous Passive / nursing*
  • Nursing Assessment
  • Patient Selection
  • Pneumonia / etiology
  • Pneumonia / prevention & control*
  • Rotation
  • Skin Care / methods
  • Skin Care / nursing