
Episode 44: Physical therapy with Heidi Engel
Critical Care Scenarios
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Paralyzed Patients - Is There a Need for a Respiratory Therapist?
The only way the physical theorist can genuinely accomplish it to the right extent is if they are living in the isio. So thervis has to kind of be a team member who's floating around, consult ing, rounding, observing each of the patients. And so what i would tell you is, ok, i see you've just taken the paralytics office. This patient looks like he's starting to come around. Looks like he's doing better. And it seems like perhaps to morrow we could get started. Now, if the patient wasa not quite at the point you described, like maybe they were not paralyzed, but not quite able to tolerate pressure support yet, somewhere thing like
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