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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 159: Building a Dream Team

What happens when resources and staffing are dedicated to providing high touch and high compliance with the ABCDEF bundle? How does adequate staffing, interdisciplinary team dynamics, and quality protocols impact patient outcomes and financial benefits? What is the “secret sauce” of successfully weaning patients from the ventilator? Sam Nimah and Phillip Norris share with us

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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 158: Keeping “Up” With the Times. A Deep Dive Into the Benefits of Verticalization Therapy

What happens to the body at the cellular, neurological, pulmonary, musculoskeletal, and cardiovascular levels when it remains supine for days to weeks? What is verticalization therapy and what does current research reveal about its benefits during critical illness? Verticalization experts, Phillip Gonzalez, MOT, OTR/L, BCPR, Nikki Stephens, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, and Jenna Hightower, PT, DPT,

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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 151: Breathing Trials with Karsten Roberts

Are awakening trials just for breathing trials? How do we set patients up for successful breathing trials to minimize time on the ventilator? What role does sedation and mobility play into prompt liberation from mechanical ventilation? Karsten Roberts, MSc, RRT, FAARC joins us now to dive deep into spontaneous breathing trials in the ABCDEF Bundle.

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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 150: Awakening Trials- “Rehumanization of the Patient”- With Dr. Wes Ely

What is the purpose of awakening “trials”? When should awakening “trials” be done? How can we have successful awakening “trials”? Dr. Wes Ely joins us in this episode to crack the code on sedation cessation. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton: Last week, I did a little survey on social media. I recognize that my followers

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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 149: A- Assess, Prevent, and Treat Pain with Joanna Stollings, PharmD

The A of the ABCDEF Bundle is for “Assess, Prevent, and Treat Pain”. How do we truly master this tool and how does this impact patient outcomes? Can we assess, prevent, and treat pain while simultaneously striving to have all possible patients awake, autonomous, and even mobile? Joanna Stollings, PharmD, shares what the A of

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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 148: The History and True Mission of the ABCDEF Bundle

How did the ABCDEF bundle come to be and what is its true objective? What barriers are causing the ICU community to fall short of full compliance with the bundle and what is the future of the ABCDEF bundle? Michele Balas, PhD, RN shares with us her insights as one of the founders of the

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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 147: The Big Picture of Hospital-Aquired Pressure Injuries with Wound Care Karen

Walking Home From The ICU Episode 147: The Big Picture of Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries with Wound Care Karen

How do hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) occur in the ICU and why is the ABCDEF bundle such a powerful tool to prevent HAPIs? How do HAPIs impact healthcare costs, staff workload, patient quality of life, and overall survival? Wound Care Karen joins us in this episode to explore the crisis of hospital-acquired pressure injuries in

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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 146: Success Stories from ICU Revolutionists

Individuals and teams are transforming patient outcomes through the adaptation of the ABCDEF bundle. Hear a compilation of their inspiring successes in this episode! Episode Transcription The past few episodes have been heavy. Obviously we have to address the challenges we face and the damage being done to patients. Yet, we also need to focus

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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 145: The Trauma of Sedation and Immobility in Families in the ICU

Sedation and immobility impact more than patient outcomes in the ICU. Family members also suffer the isolation, burden, trauma, and loss from sedation and immobility in and after the ICU. Families are also at risk of developing post-ICU syndrome themselves. Nonetheless, they are left unprepared to care for their loved ones who are suffering the

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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 144: Living With a “Sedation-Induced Brain Injury” and PICS

Until post-ICU syndrome is widely known and the impact is deeply appreciated, we will continue to fall short of evidence-based sedation and mobility practices. The real experts on post-ICU syndrome (PICS) are those that live with it. Carol Billian joins us now to share her personal expertise. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:47 It’s time to

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