Dayton Walking Through ICU Episode 9 Mobility is a Life-Saving Intervention

Walking You Through The ICU Episode 9: Mobility is a Life-Saving Intervention

Mobility is a life-saving intervention. In this episode, Kali will discuss the lethal risks of Immobility and muscular atrophy and how mobility (even and especially on the ventilator) can help your loved one survive and thrive. Episode Transcription Ok, episode 9. I know this is a lot and I commend you for sticking with this

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Dayton Walking Through ICU Episode 8 Sedation and Medically-Induced Comas

Walking You Through The ICU Episode 8: Sedation and Medically-Induced Comas

Despite the high risks and harm of prolonged deep sedation, why do most ICUs place every patient on a ventilator into a medically-induced coma? Let’s talk straight about the history and big picture of our ICU sedation culture. Episode Transcription Now that you understand delirium, we have to address medically-induced comas. In all honesty, this

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Dayton Walking Through ICU Episode 3 Quick! Risks of Medically-Induced Comas

Walking You Through The ICU Episode 3: Quick! Risks of Medically-Induced Comas

In this episode, Kali dives deeper into the reality, history, and culture of medically-induced comas including the risks of prolonged sedation. Episode Transcription Episode 2: Quick! What you need to know about medically induced-comas. The next few episodes, we will dive deeper into the reality, history, and culture of medically-induced comas. Yet, if you or

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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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