Walking Home From The ICU
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Walking Home From The ICU
Kali Dayton, DNP, ACNP-BC, is an ICU nurse practitioner and consultant on a mission to create Awake and Walking ICUs. She hands the microphone to ICU survivors and bedside caregivers to reveal the realities of ICU experience and patients' journeys after discharge. The big picture of sedation and imm...
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Episode 206: Humanizing the Neuro ICU with Compassion, Teamwork, and Verticalization Therapy
With the complex mobility needs of patients in the neuro ICU, how did Dr. Tarek Dakakni standardize patient standing for 8 hrs a day as a standard?

Episode 205: Verticalization Therapy- Implementation Strategies and Barriers
As described in episode 158, verticalization therapy (VT) has vast and powerful benefits to patient care and outcomes.
Having tec...

Episode 204: The Power of Communication During Non-invasive Ventilation to Transform Comfort and Outcomes
A key part of symptom management, agitation management, and humanizing care is communication. Throughout the podcast, we have discussed non-verbal com...

Episode 203: Clinical Nurse Specialist Leading the ICU Revolution in Michigan
What is the role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in the ICU?
How did Lynette LaBine, MSN, RN, CNS, CCRN leverage her CNS rol...

Episode 202: Speechless in the ICU- an SLP’s Journey
Vanessa Abraham is an expert speech language pathologist. She had given innumerable youth access to communication. Then she found herself speechless i...

Episode 201: Fighting for the Role and Power of Occupational Therapy in the ICU
Get unlimited CE credits for this podcast and any learning experience here: SapienCE Reflecting Learning | Unleash Your Inner SageIn this podcast epis...

Episode 200: Culture, Reality, and Real-talk with Dr. Ghionni
What is the current state of affairs with the ABCDEF bundle in many ICUs? What is it like to be trained to have patients awake after intubation to lat...

Episode 199: Awake, Communicative, Autonomous, and Mobile- A Survivor and Nurse’s Experience
When Molly suffered a severe stroke requiring mechanical ventilation and an EVD, what did Kaira do to prevent further neurological injury? What role d...

Episode 198: Age Friendly Care in the ICU- Riding the Wave of 4Ms
CMS is rolling out a new initiative to require hospitals to have age-friendly care: 4Ms. This means that we must prioritize: Medications, Mentation, M...

Episode 197: Raging Tigers and Merciful Angels- The Fight to Humanize Critical Care
In this powerful episode, we hear raw, heartfelt stories from ICU revolutionists who are bravely challenging the status quo in critical care. Amidst t...

Episode 196: Delirium and Workplace Violence
Does sedation improve safety in the ICU? What is the relationship between delirium and workplace violence? Nurse and survivor of workplace violence, K...

Episode 195: Public Opinion on Informed Consent and Medically-Induced Comas
If the choice between being sedated or awake and mobile was provided prior to intubation with the risks disclosed, what would the general public choos...

Episode 194: Walking While Intubated with an IABP with Bob
What it is like to wake up intubated with an intra aortic balloon pump and then have Teia, your physical therapist, get you walking? Bob shares with u...

Episode 193: Empowering Respiratory Therapists with JJ the RT
What does JJ the RT have to say about last episode’s exploration of sedation and ventilator asynchrony? Are respiratory therapists prepared and empowe...

Episode 192: Debunking Myths- Sedation and Ventilator Asynchrony
For years we have been taught at the bedside that sedation “improves ventilator asynchrony”. We have believed that patients must be sedated to be comp...

Episode 191: Insights from SCCM Congress- Current State of Affairs
What do ICU clinicians really know about patient perspective of sedation and immobility? What are their personal wishes if they were intubated in the...

Episode 190: Healing From Post-ICU PTSD with UCF Restores
After 51 days of sedation and immobility in the ICU and on ECMO, Angela Leggett spent almost 2 decades battling post-ICU PTSD. She shares with us her...

Episode 189: The ICU Revolution at Mercy San Juan Medical Center- Part 8 with Dr. Parimal Bharucha
What is the ethical and moral responsibility of a medical director to personally practice, lead, and support their ICU to keep patients as awake and m...

Episode 188: The ICU Revolution at Mercy San Juan Medical Center - Part 7 with Dr. Jodi Coates
When the harm of “normal practices” shifts the perspective of an ICU revolutionist and medical director, what is the next course of action? Dr. Jodi C...

Episode 187: The ICU Revolution at Mercy San Juan Medical Center - Part 6 with Ginger Manss
What is the role of the critical care director in leading ICU teams to become Awake and Walking ICUs? How can directors use the evidence to win execut...

Episode 186: The ICU Revolution at Mercy San Juan Medical Center Part 5- Respiratory Therapy
What role do respiratory therapists play in creating Awake and Walking ICUs? How did Candace Wistrich, RRT, BSRT and Nelya Kapitula, RRT, BSRT lead th...

Episode 185: The ICU Revolution at Mercy San Juan Medical Center- Part 4 with the Trauma ICU RNs
How does the Awake and Walking ICU approach apply to the trauma ICU?
How did education, training, leadership support, and deep co...

Episode 184: The ICU Revolution at Mercy San Juan Medical Center- Part 3 with Luke Stratigates
Safe patient handling(SPH) is a fairly new and rapidly growing field. Mercy San Juan Medical Center is fortunate to have a strong SPH department and l...

Episode 183: The ICU Revolution at Mercy San Juan Medical Center- Part 2 with Dr. Lawrence Bistrong
What happens when a medical director really sees the reality of “normal practices” and becomes a revolutionist? Dr. Bistrong shares his personal conve...

Episode 182: The ICU Revolution at Mercy San Juan Medical Center- Part 1 with Jeana Flakes
Standardized sedation and immobility are rooted in a gap in education. What is the power of a nurse educator in transforming knowledge, culture, and p...

Episode 181: Physician Insights at CHEST
What do physicians understand of the ABCDEF bundle? What are their perceptions of early mobility? How are their teams practicing the ABCDEF bundle in...

Episode 180: Leading the ABCDEF Bundle in Bangledash
What happens when a visionary physician in a low-resource hospital in Bangledash leads his team to practice the ABCDEF bundle?
Ho...

Episode 179: The Legal Liability of Failing to Practice the ABCDEF Bundle
Fear of “liabilities” is often a barrier to keeping patients awake and mobile in the ICU. Yet, we know that the ABCDEF is evidence-based best practice...

Episode 178: The Power of Nursing Leadership to Revolutionize the ICU
Although the ABCDEF bundle does not solely rest on the shoulders of nurses, their leadership is KEY. Andrea Silva, BSN, RN shares with his her journey...

Episode 177: New Grad RN Helps Lead the Revolution in His ICU
The ICU is an overwhelming and daunting environment to start a new career. While learning so many new skills from experienced mentors, how did Michael...

Episode 176: ICU Survivor to ICU Physical Therapist- Hope’s Journey to Revolutionizing Her ICU
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Episode 175: Physiologists Leading the ECMO Revolution!
Ilija Klipa MS, ACSM-CEP,ACSM-EP,ACSM EIM III, AACVPR-CCRP is a cardiac/pulmonary physiologist a high-acuity cardiac ICU. He shares his journey in pio...

Episode 174: Delirium Mismanagement for LOE Patients Exacerbate Racial Disparities in the ICU
When patients have a primary language other than English (LOE), how does this impact their access to the ABCDEF bundle? Is it standardized to provide...

Episode 173: ICU Outcomes by Dose of Mobility
We know that for each additional 10 minutes of early mobility in the ICU, hospital length of stay decreases by 1.2 days. What else do we know about th...

Episode 172: RN Insights at NTI
While walking the halls full of critical nurses at AACN’s NTI conference, I had get their insights and perspectives. This episode is full of interview...

Episode 171: The Power of Autonomy and Human Connection During ECMO
Check out this episode with @Christinecasiano as she shares the contrast between being sedated vs. being awake while on ECMO. Register for the monthly...

Episode 170: A Timeline Through the History of ABCDEF Bundle- Building the Future of Awake and Walking ICUs
It has been claimed that ICU early mobility is a "new and temporary fad". Is walking intubated patients really that new?
Let's st...

Episode 169: Intubated in Your Own ICU
What is like to be intubated in your own ICU? Even when the environment and team are well known, what does an intensivist turned patient experience? D...

Episode 168: I Was Reported to the Board of Nursing!
What happened when I was reported to the board of nursing for advocating for early mobility in the ICU?
What are the roots of the...

Episode 167: Breaking Barriers with Walking with Trans-Femoral IABP/Devices- The Ramsey Protocol with Stephen Ramsey
Is it save to mobilize patients with trans-formal devices such as balloon pumps, impellas, and ECMO?
Who was the first person to...