Category: Walking Home From The ICU Podcast

Walking Home From The ICU Episode 110: Occupational Therapy in the Trauma ICU

Walking Home From The ICU Episode 110: Occupational Therapy in the Trauma ICU

The trauma ICU has unique risks to agitation, delirium, and long-term impairments. How does occupational therapy help the trauma ICU team avoid sedation, maximize mobility, and radically transform patient outcomes? Phillip Gonzalez, OTR, MOT, shares with us his expertise and success as an occupational therapist in the trauma ICU and traumatic brain injuries. Episode Transcription

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Episode 109: The ABCDEF Bundle for Traumatic Brain Injuries

Walking Home From The ICU Episode 109: The ABCDEF Bundle for Traumatic Brain Injuries

Traumatic brain injuries can have distinct exceptions that necessitate deep sedation and immobility. How then can we apply the ABCDEF bundle to protect injured brains and restore lives? Charlotte Davis, BSN, RN, CCRN and Richard Rivera, BSN, RN-BC share their expertise and their team’s incredible success with the ABCDEF bundle in the settings of TBI.

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Walking From ICU 108- The ABCDEF Bundle in the Trauma ICU

Walking Home From The ICU Episode 108: The ABCDEF Bundle in the Trauma ICU

The trauma ICU has a variety of high-acuity and difficult conditions that can cause obstacles and hesitation to change sedation and mobility practices. How does the ABCDEF bundle apply to the trauma ICU? Dr. Gregory Schaefer joins us now to discuss his expertise and team’s success in practicing the ABCDEF bundle in the trauma ICU.

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Walking From ICU Episode 107- Awake and Moving in the CVICU

Walking Home From The ICU Episode 107: Awake and Moving in the CVICU

Critically ill cardiovascular patients can be very high-risk and high-acuity patients with numerous devices and multiorgan failure. How and when can we safely initiate early mobility? What role should physical and occupational therapy play in the CVICU? Jenna Hightower, PT, DPT, CCS shares her incredible expertise and ground-breaking work in early mobility in the CVICU.

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Episode 106 Early Mobility During ECMO

Walking Home From The ICU Episode 106: Early Mobility During ECMO

As ECMO programs have grown in demand and popularity during COVID19, what have we learned about the safety, feasibility, and benefit of early mobility? Why is there such a significant disparity in mobility practices between ECMO teams? Dr. Julian Macedo shares with us his expertise and insights into early mobilization during ECMO. Episode Transcription Kali

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Walking From ICU 104- ICU Rehabilitation

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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Walking From ICU Episode 103- Communication Is a Basic Human Right- Especially in the ICU

Walking Home From The ICU Episode 103: Communication Is a Basic Human Right- Especially in the ICU

This episode explores the value of communication in the ICU and the impact of our sedation and immobility practices on the basic human right of communication. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:38 This episode is dedicated to communication and the ICU. This has taken me a long time to publish in part because it is so

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Walking From ICU Episode 101- The ABCDEF Bundle in the Neuro ICU

Walking Home From The ICU Episode 101: The ABCDEF Bundle in the Neuro ICU

What does the ABCDEF bundle look like in neurocritical care? When patients suffer conditions such as intracranial hypertension that necessitate sedation and immobility, how does the ABCDEF bundle apply? Neurointensivist, Dr. Neha Dangayach, shares with us her team’s strong ABCDEF culture and practices in the neuro ICU. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:06 In a recent

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ICU testimonialI 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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