Guideline on multimodal rehabilitation for patients with post-intensive care syndrome.

Background: Intensive Care Unit (ICU) survivors often experience several impairments in their physical, cognitive, and psychological health status, which are labeled as post-intensive care syndrome (PICS). The aim of this work is to develop a multidisciplinary and -professional guideline for the rehabilitative therapy of PICS.

Methods: A multidisciplinary/-professional task force of 15 healthcare professionals applied a structured, evidence-based approach to address 10 scientific questions.

Determinants of Return to Work After Multicomponent Cardiac Rehabilitation.

Objectives: To explore predictors of return to work in patients after acute coronary syndrome and coronary artery bypass grafting, taking into account cognitive performance, depression, physical capacity, and self-assessment of the occupational prognosis.

Design: Observational, prospective, bicentric.

Setting: Postacute 3-week inpatient cardiac rehabilitation (CR).

[Dysphagia in Tracheostomized Patients after Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation - Become Sensitive to Reduced Pharyngo-Laryngeal Sensitivity].

Independent of the type of critical illness, tracheostomized patients have a high risk of developing a dysphagia. This is potentially life-threatening as it can lead to aspiration and pneumonia. It is therefore essential to perform swallowing diagnostics by means of a bolus dyeing test and/or FEES before oral feeding.

Impact of cognitive performance on disease-related knowledge six months after multi-component rehabilitation in patients after an acute cardiac event.

Background: Although associations between cardiovascular diseases and cognitive impairment are well known, the impact of cognitive performance on the success of patient education as a core component of cardiac rehabilitation remains insufficiently investigated so far.

Design: Prospective observational study in two inpatient cardiac rehabilitation centres between September 2014 and August 2015 with a follow-up six months after cardiac rehabilitation.

Method: At admission to and discharge from cardiac rehabilitation, the cognitive performance of 401 patients (54.

Decannulation of tracheotomized patients after long-term mechanical ventilation - results of a prospective multicentric study in German neurological early rehabilitation hospitals.

Background: In the course of neurological early rehabilitation, decannulation is attempted in tracheotomized patients after weaning due to its considerable prognostic significance. We aimed to identify predictors of a successful tracheostomy decannulation.

Methods: From 09/2014 to 03/2016, 831 tracheotomized and weaned patients (65.

Prevalence of mild cognitive impairment in employable patients after acute coronary event in cardiac rehabilitation.

Introduction: Adequate cognitive function in patients is a prerequisite for successful implementation of patient education and lifestyle coping in comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs. Although the association between cardiovascular diseases and cognitive impairments (CIs) is well known, the prevalence particularly of mild CI in CR and the characteristics of affected patients have been insufficiently investigated so far.

Methods: In this prospective observational study, 496 patients (54.