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Mild exercise can speed up recovery for ICU patients--study

Adding to the existing benefits of exercising, a novel research finds exercising a factor for speedy recovery of patients in the intensive care unit.

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According to the research, mild exercise can help in lowering use of sedatives as these have to be decreased in order to enable the patient to exercise and reduce the recovery time of severely ill patients in the intensive care unit by more than two to three days.

Dr Dale Needham and his contemporaries from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine initiated the latest study that explored the benefits of mild exercise for critically ill intensive care unit patients.

Newer sedative effective for ICU patients

Portland, Maine, February 4 : Preliminary research indicates the use of the sedative dexmedetomidine may prove advantageous over the most commonly administered sedative drugs for pati

Newer sedative effective for ICU patients

The latest study to be published in the Feb. 4 issue of the Journal of the American Medical reveals, dexmedetomidine induces sedation and anxiolysis via receptors in the locus ceruleus, analgesia via receptors in the spinal cord, and attenuation of the stress response without significant respiratory depressiondefine.

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