We mobilized our first two #COVID#COVIDー19 patients while vented
Not able until day 8-9
Both likely ICU acquired weakness
Two thoughts
timeframes prolonged in these folks. “Early” mobility/PT isn’t about time it’s about timing
play the long game, rehab will be lengthy
Now is not the time to throw out what we know works. If we continue to deeply sedate and immobilize the second we intubate we are causing a pile up rehab messes. We may fight the short-term battle but lose to complications from ICUAW weakness in the end.
A little sketch note of our first experiences of chest physio with COVID-19 patients in ICU. It’s nice to see these mirror a lot of others’ findings. The most important things we found have been;
Here are our May dates for FREE remote Heart Manual Training and Digital Reboot sessions to support facilitating the Digital Heart Manuals which we are providing for free until June 2020.
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Early prone positioning may help moderate ARDS patients who are on NFNC or NIV to avoid intubation. Fighting the COVID-19 Pneumonia - (Prone) position yourself https://t.co/tK8jJRAqI5 via @YouTube. #COVID19#pronepositioning#icurehab@icurehab
We may be doing a lot of proning in the next few weeks. if you want to understand why we prone, this may help. https://t.co/NvySZbSHIn #COVID_19uk#Covid_19#FOAMed
How much does the Critically Ill patients move during the ICU Stay?
Our work presented in the World congress of Intensive Care in the field of actigraphy as objective and continuous measure of ICU patients behaviors.
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