Guidelines for Stroke Critical Care Rehabilitation

Stroke is a disease in which cerebral blood vessels are damaged by a variety of causes, producing focal or overall brain tissue damage. With the acceleration of population aging and urbanization, stroke has become the leading cause of death and disability among adult residents in China. Many studies and guidelines suggest that early rehabilitation should be carried out as soon as possible for critically ill stroke patients when their vital signs are stable. Early systematic rehabilitation intervention is of great significance in improving the overall functional status, reducing the duration of mechanical ventilation, shortening the length of stay in the intensive care unit, and reducing medical costs. The development of stroke critical care rehabilitation guidelines based on the principles of evidence-based medicine can provide clinicians with comprehensive and standardized practice guidance. This guideline standardizes the implementation process of stroke critical care rehabilitation from the aspects of scope, normative reference documents, terms and definitions, general principles, general rules of rehabilitation implementation, rehabilitation implementation procedures, conditions of rehabilitation implementation, and quality control of rehabilitation, forming a scientific, standardized, and unified operational guideline. This guideline will effectively promote the promotion and popularization of stroke critical care rehabilitation at all levels of medical institutions in China and provide guidance for all levels of medical institutions to carry out such rehabilitation work with good clinical applicability and effectiveness.