Walking Home from The ICU Episode 12: Loved Ones Are Survivors Too Part I
Caregivers also leave ICU with high rates of PTSD and long-term life impacts. Mike Maranhas shares his side of his wife’s ICU stay and recovery. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton Now we’ve had penetrating insight into the sufferings of ICU survivors themselves. Yet, we would be missing a big part of the picture. If we dismissed
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Walking Home from The ICU Episode 10: I Can’t Move
In this episode, Kali talks with Jim and Cheryl Rettinger about what it’s like to be sent to LTAC with no expectations of returning home and what happens when patients have not moved for weeks+. What does their journey to recovery looks like? Plus, they discuss the psychological effects on survivors and loved ones. Episode
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Walking Home from The ICU Episode 4: Sedation is NOT Sleep
Kali talks about what prolonged sedation is really like and survivors share their stories about what they really experienced under sedation. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton Today I want to talk about what prolonged sedation is really like. A nurse once told me, “I love to get and give propofol”. So I asked if she had
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Walking Home from The ICU Episode 3: DNS = Do NOT Sedate Me
Kali talks to Susan East, three-time “ARDS” or “ARDS” survivor, about acute respiratory distress syndrome – the most severe forms of lung failure. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton Hello, and welcome back. Today we’re going to talk to Susan East who is a three time “ARDS” or “ARDS” survivor, which represents acute respiratory distress syndrome, which
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When patients are so ill that they require a ventilator in the ICU, the antiquated approach of heavy sedation and immobilization should be avoided in order to help prevent the immense burden of physical and cognitive disabilities suffered during survival. To understand this better, listen to Walking Home From The ICU. You will see what ICU consultant Kali Dayton provides to your team.
Her training will catalyze changes in your practice to improve outcomes, decrease costs, and allow your patients to return to their full lives. Learn to love your job again as you embrace whole person care instead of caring for inert sedated bodies. Kali is leading ICU teams to become Awake and Walking ICUs through true mastery of the ABCDEF Bundle.
I endorse her mission and look forward to the standardization of this evidence-based approach in ICUs all over the world.
Dr. Wes Ely, author of "Every Deep Drawn Breath," leading founder of the ABCDEF Bundle and ICU CAM delirium screening tool, and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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