Walking Home From The ICU Episode 93: The Awake and Walking COVID ICU
Why is the mortality rate for COVID ICU patients in the Awake and Walking ICU less than half of the other COVID ICUs in the same hospital system in the same community? How have sedation and mobility practices impacted rates of central lines, vasopressor use, paralysis, tracheostomies, and LTACH admissions? How has this ICU continued
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 91: The Awake and Walking ICU in Denmark
Are there any other “Awake and Walking ICUs” outside of Salt Lake City, Utah? Dr. Thomas Strom shares with us his team’s success and research in Denmark. He provides powerful insight into the gaps and future of critical care medicine. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:37 Okay, I am so excited about this really powerful episode.
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 86: Ventilator Management in the Awake and Walking COVID19 Unit
How is the “Awake and Walking ICU” keeping their COVID19 patients mentally and physically functional during severe COVID19? Do they face constant ventilator asynchrony and how do they deal with it? Geoff shares with us his vast experience as a respiratory therapist in walking patients on mechanical ventilation during critical illness and now COVID19. Episode
Walking Home From The ICU Episode 85: RT Magic
Does sedation always improve ventilator dyssynchrony, or can it cause it? How does a lack of unity between disciplines impact patient care and outcomes? How can we better support and utilize the expertise of respiratory therapists to optimize care for patients on ventilators? Brady Scott, PhD, RRT shares his 20 years of experience and insights.
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 84: Zentensive Care
How can we manage ventilators to decrease alarms, avoid misdiagnosing/mistreating asynchrony, and improve patient comfort and outcomes? Dr. Matt Siuba, MD, the “Zenintensivist”, shares with us his tools to decrease sedation and neuromuscular blockade use. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:00 Hello, and welcome back. Before we start as the episode you have all been waiting
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 79: Step Up and Step Forward
What can happen when a clinician wakes up to the reality of sedation and immobility? ICU revolutionists around the world are stepping up and stepping forward to elevate sedation and mobility practices for their patients. It can take 1 person to make 1 decision and change a patient’s entire life. Hear their success stories! Episode
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 77: Start Where You Are
Are lung-protective strategies only implemented when patients are sedated? Is walking on the ventilator safe for the lungs? How do we transition from “sedating to keep patients safe” to “walking to keep patients safe”? Dr. Ali Fazili from the “Awake and Walking ICU” shares with us his expertise. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:28 Hello, and
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 76: Less Sedation = Less Work
Is it *really* easier to sedate patients? Ultimately, does giving patient delirium and ICU acquired weakness actually decrease staff workload? Travel nurse, Alex, gives us the real deal. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:28 Alex, thanks so much for coming back onto the podcast are sure you are with us in Episode 32. But can you
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 74: Walk Them To Sleep
What are the main “treatments” or “tools” to prevent and treat delirium? How can we facilitate “quiet nights” without harming patients with sedation? Peter Nydahl, RN, MScN, PhD, teaches us how to walk them to sleep. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:27 Hello, and welcome back on one of the videos or pictures posted an Instagram
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 70: Rallying The Troops In The PICU
What specific approaches help rally the troops to bring change to the ICU? How have other PICU teams cultivated a rich culture of mobility? When an interdisciplinary approach becomes the culture of the PICU, what happens to patient outcomes? Erin Gates, DPT and Sara Eilerman, DPT share with us the PICU UP! culture and practices
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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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