Prolonged stay in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) can cause muscle weakness, physical deconditioning, recurrent symptoms, mood alterations and poor quality of life. Physiotherapy is probably the only treatment likely to increase in the short- and long-term care of the patients admitted to these units. Recovery of physical and respiratory functions, coming off mechanical ventilation, prevention of the...

* Corresponding author at: Omid Moradi Moghaddam, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Rasoul-Akram Medical Center Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Tel: +98-9391244560, Fax: +98-2166509059, E-mail: moradimoghadam@yahoo. com DOI: 10.5812/kowsar.22287523.2291 Copyright c 2011, ISRAPM, Published by Kowsar M. P. Co All rights reserved. Probiotics in Critically Ill Pat...