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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
[Effects of kinesthetic mobilization in comparison with standard mobilization on respiratory function after coronary artery bypass and other relevant factors].
Presently no relevant nursing data exist in Germany on the effect of mobilization according to kinaesthetic principles on the physiological system, on locomotion and the sensory system. The effect of two different versions of mobilization was measured in a unicentric, open, randomized study with two parallel groups from December 1999 to October 2000 in the intermediate ICU for patients after heart surgery at Ulm University Hospital. The aim was, to show superiority of kinaesthetic mobilization, compared to empirically developed standard mobilization on patients after aortal coronary bypass surgery, with reference to respiratory function. ⋯ There was no diagnosis of pneumonia and none of instabile sternum on any of the subjects in this study. Also, there was no negative effect on the sternum due to the light support arms gave to sitting up and rotating movements in the area of thorax and pelvis on subjects in the kinaesthetic group. The subjects early trust in their own varied movement and the possible effects of kinaesthetic mobilization in later phases of recuperation was not explored in this study.