Walking Home From The ICU Episode 105: The ABCDEF Bundle in the CVICU
How does the ABCDEF bundle apply to the CVICU with a variety of diagnoses, acuities, and devices? Anna Dalton, DNP, ACANP, in an “Awake and Walking CVICU” shares with us the evolution their team has experienced in improving their mastery of the ABCDEF bundle. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:38 Okay, the next three episodes are
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How I Was First Introduced to the ABCDEF Bundle
“Would you be willing to walk intubated patients on ventilators?” my future nurse manager asked me during my initial interview. As a new nurse, I failed to fully understand the importance of this question and eagerly answered, “Yes! Of course! Teach me everything.” During my first few years working as a nurse in an Awake
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 104: ICU Rehabilitation
When ICU-acquired weakness is not preventable, or we encounter a patient that has not received the ABCDEF bundle, how can we start the rehabilitation process? What approach can one lone clinician use for initiating recovery or preventing ICU-acquired weakness? Physiotherapist, Lucy Sutton, shares with us incredible insight into ICU rehabilitation. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:01
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When patients are so ill that they require a ventilator in the ICU, the antiquated approach of heavy sedation and immobilization should be avoided in order to help prevent the immense burden of physical and cognitive disabilities suffered during survival. To understand this better, listen to Walking Home From The ICU. You will see what ICU consultant Kali Dayton provides to your team.
Her training will catalyze changes in your practice to improve outcomes, decrease costs, and allow your patients to return to their full lives. Learn to love your job again as you embrace whole person care instead of caring for inert sedated bodies. Kali is leading ICU teams to become Awake and Walking ICUs through true mastery of the ABCDEF Bundle.
I endorse her mission and look forward to the standardization of this evidence-based approach in ICUs all over the world.
Dr. Wes Ely, author of "Every Deep Drawn Breath," leading founder of the ABCDEF Bundle and ICU CAM delirium screening tool, and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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