Older children aremore likely to receive earlymobilization [43]. The
authors postulated that this may be due to the perception of greater
safety and superior cognitive and functional maturity in older children.
Nonphysician health care team members are often the ones to identify
children’s needs for rehabilitation. More than half (54.5%) of children
admitted to ICU are not mobilized during their ICU stay [42]. Mobilization
protocolsmandating physiotherapy consults for every PICU patient
could improve short- and long-term functional outcomes. The efficacy
of early mobilization, appropriate patient selection, and risk stratification
for who could benefit most from this intervention, however, has
yet to be evaluated in prospective clinical trials in pediatrics.