How Simulation Training Can Help to Improve ICU Patient Care
Despite many exciting advancements in technology and research, ICU sedation and mobility practices continue to be stuck in the past. A big part of this problem stems from ICU culture, which encourages clinicians to fear change and be resistant to new ideas and approaches. But regardless of these issues with ICU culture, the truth is,
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 127: Saving Lives and Over One Million Dollars
When the ICU at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Colorado invested less than $100,000 into becoming an Awake and Walking ICU, what was their return on investment? How has supporting the training, education, and support of their team impacted their team dynamics, morale, and patient outcomes? Nancy Mcgann, PT, shares with us her team’s exciting success!
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 126 Delirium Podcrawl Episode
Tina from Good Nurse Bad Nurse co-hosts with Kali to explore how gaps in delirium education and support can turn lethal by a “Bad Nurse” and how a “Good Nurse” can change and save innumerable lives for generations to come. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:05 This is a special episode as part of a pod
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 125: Responding to Agitation in the ICU
As Dr. Swamy said in episode 61, “You can’t sedate away delirium”. Yet, when patients are delirious and agitated, how can we keep patients and clinicians safe? How do we avoid and even discontinue sedation while keeping lines and tubes intact? What role do restraints play in agitation and trauma for patients? Are soft wrist
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 124: Alcohol Withdrawal and Phenobarbital
Alcohol withdrawal can send our patients into a spiral of delirium and downstream complications in the ICU. What are the risks of benzodiazepines for our patients even during alcohol withdrawal? How can we give our patients the best chance to walk away from ETOH withdrawal and critical illness? Dr. Obiajulu Anozie, MD joins us in
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Kali Dayton’s consultancy energized our ICU to adopt the very latest evidence-based therapies to identify, prevent, and treat delirium with the ultimate goal being to eliminate preventable delirium by leveraging lessons shared by Kali to get our ICU patients awake, mobile, and walking.
The advice and tier-one support by Dayton ICU Consulting is a critical component of any ICU leader who wants to do better and make the greatest impact possible for patients so that they survive the ICU and go home to continue their livelihoods free of post-intensive care syndrome or PTSD.
Kali offers a powerful vector to ensure ICU care is state of the art.
Brian Delmonaco, MD, FACEP, Medical Director, Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Samaritan Health Services
Perception Versus Reality: Debunking The Myths About Medically-Induced Comas
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