The mission to create Awake and Walking ICUs is not a brand new endeavor. Dr. Juli Barr, an early PAD and ICU liberation founder, shares with us the tools needed to master the ABCDEF bundle. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:02 Dr. Barr, welcome to the podcast I am ecstatic to have you on. Can you
Walking Home From The ICU Episode 135: The Contrast Between Awake and Sedated
The cultural assumption that everyone would rather be sedated is based on the myth that sedation is “sleep”. Very few survivors can give us a comparison of being sedated vs. being awake while intubated. Lara, like Susan East in episode 3, has had it both ways and shares with us the contrast. Episode Transcription Kali
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 134: Are We Sedating Them to Death?
We know that deep sedation is an independent predictor of mortality. This guides most sedation orders to require a RASS of 0- (-2). Is that what is really happening at the bedside? What percentage of patients are actually lightly sedated to the RASS goal vs. deeply sedated? What is driving oversedation throughout the ICU community?
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 133: “SOAR: Sedation Off Awake and Rehabilitate” with Dr. Fuchita
When Dr. Mikita Fuchita heard about an Awake and Walking ICU, he had to see it with his own eyes. After visiting the Awake and Walking ICU, how did Dr. Fuchita embark on bringing his colleagues together to update their sedation and mobility practices? He shares his personal conversion and his team’s journey with us
Unplanned Extubations: Dispelling the Fear and Understanding the Reality
When I think back to how I started my career as a nurse, it really does seem like a date with destiny. I could have gotten a job at any ICU, but for whatever reason, I landed my first nursing gig at a high acuity medical-surgical intensive care unit in Salt Lake City, Utah, which
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 132: The Power of ICU Diaries to Treat Post-ICU PTSD
Post-ICU PTSD is a life altering and life-threatening condition. ICU diaries have shown promising benefits to helping survivors navigate the trauma they carry with them from the ICU and especially delirium. David Richards shares with us his journey during and after the ICU and how his ICU diary has been a key part of his
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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