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Episode 44: Physical therapy with Heidi Engel

Critical Care Scenarios

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Are You Choosing What Exercises in the Bed?

The often ignored skeletal muscle system is a very crucial system. We want the heart and lungs to improve, but we need to communicate with them through this vast amount of body mass. Your brain needs to problem solve how to get out of bed and tolerate a ventilator tubing at the same time. How to be able to sit outside of the bed and find out from your family member what's happening at home? These are all things that require your brain in a way that we forget about when we're healthy. But when you're critically ill and attached to all this equipment in the ie to you that's actually profound powerful medicine.

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