Mobilisation debout aux soins intensifs : validation d’une liste de critères de sécurité

Introduction: Survivors of intensive care units (ICU) often present physical and neuro- psychological impairments following the frequently prolonged bed rest and aggressive resuscitation treatments inherent to care received in these units. Early weight-bearing mobility in a standing position is a promising method to limit the extent of, and initiate recovery from these impairments. Activities that incorporate the standing position seem to be more beneficial than other bedside interventions. However, for ICU patients, activities performed in a standing position may be riskier. No existing report incorporates all of the safety criteria used in the ICU studies in which ICU patients were mobilized in a standing position. Moreover, there are no existing recommendations related to the most relevant and feasible safety criteria for weight-bearing in ICU patients. Purpose: 1- To determine the safety criteria needed to mobilize in a weight-bearing standing position critically ill adult patients in the ICU. 2- Identifying safety criteria, and selecting and ranking the most relevant and feasible ones from the literature by a panel of local experienced ICU clinicians. Methods: A systematic review determined which safety criteria were used in adult ICU patient studies addressing mobilization in a standing position. From this systematic review, we extracted an overview and listed safety criteria. Then, local experienced ICU clinicians were consulted with three Delphi method rounds aiming to achieve consensus on the most relevant and feasible criteria. The panel included physiotherapists, nurses, intensivists and respiratory therapists. Results: Sixty-two articles were included in the review, yielding 381 different safety criteria for adult ICU patient mobilization in a weight-bearing standing position. These criteria were categorized into cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, musculoskeletal and general safety items. They were also subdivided into criteria to be respected before mobilization (initiation criteria) and criteria suggesting stopping a mobilization for safety reasons (termination criteria). A wide variety in the definitions and cut-off values for certain criteria (ex. termination criteria of peripheral oxygen saturation below 85% versus below 88%) were iii identified. A synopsis listing of 34 criteria, selected by the research team from all extracted criteria to represent the criteria categories and types, was presented to a group of 12 local experienced ICU clinicians (all from the province of Quebec, Canada). Consensus was reached as to the relevance of 34 and feasibility of 31 safety criteria. Among them, 28 were from the literature-based synopsis and six criteria were proposed by the panelists. Conclusion: The literature provides safety criteria needed to mobilize ICU patients in a weight-bearing position. A panel of local experienced ICU clinicians helped establish a list of 34 relevant and 31 feasible safety criteria for safety mobilization of ICU patients in standing position among witch 28 originating from the literature review.

Keyphrases: Exercice, Intensive care unit, Exercise, Physiotherapy, Safety, Standing position