ICEAGE (Incidence of Complications following Emergency Abdominal surgery: Get Exercising): study protocol of a pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled trial testing physiotherapy for the prevention of complications and improved physical recovery after emergency abdominal surgery

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Boden, I, Sullivan, K, Hackett, C, Winzer, B, Lane, Rebecca ORCID: 0000-0002-8658-2739, McKinnon, M and Robertson, I (2018) ICEAGE (Incidence of Complications following Emergency Abdominal surgery: Get Exercising): study protocol of a pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled trial testing physiotherapy for the prevention of complications and improved physical recovery after emergency abdominal surgery. World Journal of Emergency Surgery, 13. ISSN 1749-7922

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Item type Article
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/39479
DOI 10.1186/s13017-018-0189-y
Official URL https://wjes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1...
Subjects Historical > FOR Classification > 1103 Clinical Sciences
Current > Division/Research > College of Health and Biomedicine
Keywords emergency surgery; abdominal surgery; complications; physiotherapy; breathing exercises; postoperative pulmonary complication; pneumonia; ileus; rehabilitation; patient education
Citations in Scopus 12 - View on Scopus
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