Walking Home From The ICU Episode 53: ICU Early Walking with Heidi Engel
How do we bring changes to the ICU? What barriers impede the progress of our culture? Heidi Engel, PT, DPT, shares with us her continuous journey to humanizing her ICU. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:29 Welcome to the Awake and Walking ICU podcast, I can tell that we have a lot of new listeners.
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 45: Physical Therapy In the ICU During COVID19
What roles do physical and occupational play in helping COVID19 patients survive and thrive? How have they changed their approaches during the challenges of COVID19? Why should we never remove their therapies from ICU care? Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:28 When COVID-19 came our way with concerns about isolation, patient load, and PPE immediately physical
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Walking Home from The ICU Episode 35: Mobility is EVERYONE’S job
Kali talks with Christiane Perme, the post-ICU rehabilitation specialist, who shares with us what happens after patients are sedated and immobilized for weeks, what the rehabilitation process for COVID19 survivors will be like, and how long will it take for them to be able to sit, stand, and walk again. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton Today,
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Walking Home from The ICU Episode 30: Speech Language Pathologists
In this episode, Kali talks with Lydia, CCC-SLP, who shares with us the vital role speech therapy plays in helping patients get back to their lives. She explains how awake and walking enables patients to resume eating sooner and preserves cognition. The utilization of speech therapy is explained and applied in ways that the ICU
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Walking Home from The ICU Episode 29: Occupational Therapists
In this episode, Kali talks with Merrill, MOT, to find out how occupational therapy is utilized when patients are awake and walking on the ventilator, what role occupational therapy plays in preserving physical and cognitive function during critical illness, and how this enhanced role has impacted Merrill’s his career. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton I’m
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Walking Home from The ICU Episode 24: Physical Therapists
Kali talks with Angels, DPT about how physical therapists in the awake and walking ICU save lives and enable patients to have their lives back after discharge. They talk about what is it like for physical therapists that get to do more than a passive range of motion with patients on ventilators. Episode Transcription
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Before Kali, our hospital struggled with overly-sedated patients and lack of early mobility. Despite multiple efforts to change the culture, we were at a standstill. In one hour, Kali was able to ignite a flurry of conversations regarding her experience with the Awake and Walking ICU and this immediately led to a change in clinical practice.
Patients with less sedation and other neurotoxic medications are spending fewer days on the ventilator. If you are considering starting an ICU early mobility program at your hospital, your first step needs to be to consult with Kali and absorb as much information as you can!
Matthew McClain, DPT
Florida, USA
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