Our Mission
The Dayton ICU Consulting team is dedicated to improving ICU patient care and creating better work environments for ICU staff. We do this by working to humanize intensive care units through the implementation of evidence-based practices for intubation, sedation, and early mobility in the ICU, as well as the application of modernized methods of prevention and management of delirium in the ICU.
We promote a more cost-effective, humane form of care, and inspire the creation of an environment where patients aren’t just more likely to survive, but also thriving, as well. We dream of the day when ICUs will be characterized by less compartmentalization, more interdisciplinary collaboration, improved communication between clinicians, patients, and their families, and the implementation of the Awake and Walking ICU™ method as a standardized process of care.
Click here to learn more about our founder, Kali Dayton.
I stumbled upon Kali’s podcast midway through my anesthesia critical care fellowship in February 2021. At our institution, I got the impression that patients in the ICU either got better on their own or had a prolonged and complicated course to LTAC or death. In her podcast, Kali explained that LTAC was rarely the outcome for patients in the Awake and Walking ICU™ in Salt Lake City.
Their ICU survivors hardly ever got trached, PEGed, or sent to LTAC, and literally walked out of the hospital in condition as close to their previous health as they could be. Although the concept of using no sedation on ventilated patients was completely foreign to me, it made sense based on what I had read in the literature. I devoured all of the episodes from the beginning, many of them bringing tears and regret for my ignorance, followed by inspiration and hope in later episodes. Listening to her podcast has been one of the most profound experiences in my short, eight-year career in medicine.
After discovering the no sedation, early mobility practice at the Awake and Walking ICU™, my focus shifted to bringing it to my own institution. I visited Salt Lake City in March to witness it with my own eyes. Since then, I’ve been in touch closely with Kali and Louise to learn the practical approaches to sedation wean and sedation avoidance for newly intubated patients in the ICU.
Mikita Fuchita, MD
Colorado, USA
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