Why the study?
Does early mobilisation on the fifth day reduce mortality and morbidity in patients with uncomplicated myocardial infarction compared to mobilisation on the tenth day?
Does early mobilisation on the fifth day reduce mortality and morbidity in patients with uncomplicated myocardial infarction compared to mobilisation on the tenth day?
Early mobilisation on the fifth day after uncomplicated myocardial infarction showed no difference in first-year mortality or morbidity compared to tenth-day mobilisation.
No mortality or morbidity benefit with day-5 versus day-10 mobilisation after uncomplicated MI; confirms equivalence of these strategies in first-year outcomes.
In a multicentre trial 742 patients in 13 hospitals in Wales were randomly allocated on the fifth day after uncomplicated myocardial infarction to be mobilised on the fifth or the tenth day. The trial shows no difference in first year mortality, nor in morbidity assessed after a median period of 13 months. Follow-up after one year suggests an unexplained lower mortality during the second and third years in the late mobilisation group.
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