Quality Improvement Intervention to Promote Early Mobilization in Trauma ICU

Early mobilization will be defined as any active exercise where the patients could assist with the activity using their own muscle strength and control that occurred within the first 7 days of trauma ICU admission and will be intended to maintain or restore overall function as well as being scored using the ICU mobility scale.15 The ICU mobility scale includes rolling, bridging, sitting, standing and walking, and upper and lower limb flexion and extension. In-bed therapies will include active or active-assist range of motion, bridge exercise, quadriceps setting, straight leg raising, rolling exercises and facilitation.