New Johns Hopkins research suggests that patients have substantial physical impairments even two years after being discharged from the hospital after a stay in an intensive care unit (ICU). The scientists found that for every day of bed rest in the ICU, muscle strength was between 3 and 11 percent lower over the following months and years. "Even a single day of bed rest in the ICU has a lasting impact on weakness, which impacts patients' physical functioning ...
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