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European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine 2023 February;59(1):122-4

DOI: 10.23736/S1973-9087.22.07646-8

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Infection control practices and device management when mobilizing critically ill patients

Peter NYDAHL ¹ ✉, Sabrina EGGMANN ², Hajime KATSUKAWA ³, Jürgen OSTERBRINK ^{4, 5}, Selina M. PARRY ⁶, Stefan J. SCHALLER ^{7, 8}, Dale M. NEEDHAM ^{9, 10, 11, 12}

¹ Department of Nursing Research, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany; ² Department of Physiotherapy, Inselspital, University Hospital of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; ³ Department of Scientific Research, Japanese Society for Early Mobilization, Tokyo, Japan; ⁴ Institute for Nursing Science and Practice, Paracelsus Medical Private University, Salzburg, Austria; ⁵ Brooks College of Health, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA; ⁶ Department of Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; ⁷ Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine Charité University of Medicine, Berlin, Germany; ⁸ School of Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany; ⁹ Outcomes after Critical Illness and Surgery (OACIS) Group, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; ¹⁰ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; ¹¹ School of Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; ¹² School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA