Early rehabilitation for severe acquired brain injury in intensive care unit: multicenter observational study.

Background: The increased survival after a severe acquired brain injury (sABI) raise the problem of making most effective the treatments in Intensive Care Unit (ICU)/Neurointensive Care Unit (NICU), also integrating rehabilitation care. Despite previous studies reported that early mobilization in ICU was effective in preventing complications and reducing hospital stay, few studies addressed the rehabilitative management of sABI patients in ICU/NICU.

Aim: To collect clinical and functional data about the early rehabilitative management of sABI patients during ICU/NICU stay.