Search Tag: physiotherapists

ICU Management

Intensive-care-physiotherapists-should-be-using-point-of-care-ultrasound-pocus

2021 19 Apr

An overview of the potential of POCUS on clinical decision making at the bedside and the need to add  it as a new diagnostic tool by intensive care physiotherapists. Introduction Intensive care physiotherapists often rely on standard assessment tools, such as measures of physiological function (arterial blood gases), adequacy/quality...Read more

ICU Management

How-icu-diaries-can-help-patients-and-families

2018 04 Jun

I work in a small intensive care unit (ICU) where we have been writing diaries since 1992. Initially, they were just little black books with notes by staff and families on how patients were doing during their ICU stay. In 1999, we began taking photos of the patients to illustrate their critically ill period, to help them understand and see what happened....Read more

ICU Management

Implementation-of-early-and-structured-rehabilitation-in-icu

2017 22 Nov

The importance of multidisciplinary team working and communication Early mobility has been shown to be both safe and feasible within critical care populations. When introduced, early mobilisation programmes are associated with an improvement in short-term outcomes and long-term recovery in critical care patients. Despite this, point prevalence...Read more