"Early Ambulation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Procedure to accelerate the ability of a patient to walk or move about by reducing the time to AMBULATION. It is characterized by a shorter period of hospitalization or recumbency than is normally practiced.
| Descriptor ID |
D004434
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.169.063.500.335 E02.831.335
|
| Concept/Terms |
Early Ambulation- Early Ambulation
- Accelerated Ambulation
- Ambulation, Accelerated
- Ambulation, Early
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Early Ambulation".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Early Ambulation".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Early Ambulation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Early Ambulation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Early Ambulation" by people in Profiles.
-
Physical Therapy on Postoperative Day Zero Following Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomized, Controlled Trial of 394 Patients. J Arthroplasty. 2019 Jul; 34(7S):S173-S177.e1.
-
Quality and Variability of Online Available Physical Therapy Protocols From Academic Orthopaedic Surgery Programs for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. Arthroscopy. 2016 08; 32(8):1612-21.
-
Preservation of ischemic myocardium through activity management. J Cardiovasc Nurs. 1989 Aug; 3(4):39-48.