Facilitating Functional Independence in Patients Receiving Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation

Exclusion Criteria

• •Cardiopulmonary Instability
• •Acute-onset neuromuscular disease
• •Lower-extremity amputee or paresis
• •Open wound at electrode application points
• •Pitting edema grade ≥3
• •Presence of pacemaker, implanted defibrillator, or ventricular-assist device
• •inability to transfer from sitting to standing before critical illness