The latest techniques to – reduce the length of ICU stays,
promote early recovery, and regain function for critically ill patients
It's been two weeks post stroke – with everything from pain, weakness, bed bathing, urinary catheters, and feeding assistance – your patient is desperate to feel some sense of normalcy again… and YOU hold the key to their recovery.
Nothing compares to the flood of emotions when you assist that patient to stand for the first time. You get to see the hope in their eyes, as their family members glow with gratitude. This is the true power of early mobility for critical care patients.
But it's not an easy task. You're faced with altered cognition, rapidly changing vitals, unpredictable behaviors, anguished family members, and a slew of lines, wires, drains, and tubes to navigate. Your patient is counting on YOU to gain the strength and function they need to recover… and getting a single detail wrong can have life-altering consequences.
Unwind the complexities of critical care and continue to be the clinician your patients can depend on. Join us for the Critical Care Rehab Summit and learn the newest evidence and best rehab practices to provide safe and effective early mobility to critical care patients.
This comprehensive 2-day live virtual training provides essential interventions and proven mobility strategies for the whole Acute Care team!
No matter your discipline – you'll learn powerful NEW skills to improve patient outcomes and return them to their pre-illness level of function. With information on…
ABCDEF Bundle
Dysphagia
Polypharmacy
Stroke rehab
Delirium
Peds rehab
Trach/Vent Tips
Gait/ADL training
AND MORE!
Critical Care Rehab Summit
Best Practices for Early Mobility and Return to Function
July 18–19, 2023
Attend the Summit your way – Join LIVE or ON-DEMAND!
⇒ Critical Care Nurse Practitioner and Outcomes Consultant
⇒ Host of the Walking Home from the ICU and Walking You Through The ICU Podcasts
⇒ Works with ICU teams internationally to transform patient outcomes
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"Kali is so knowledgeable and passionate about changing how we do things in the ICU! ...the way she elevates patient voices is outstanding. Keep up the great work,and keep being a game-changer!"
"Kali Dayton advocates for us. She advocates to the medical profession to really look at and see what's going on and challenges them to do better, and she advocates to our friends and families to understand the depth and complexity of what we went through (and what we may still be going through), even though so many people see just surviving as a sign of success."
"This podcast has continued to inspire and encourage me
to push for changes in the ICU I work in."
"I'm a nurse in a small medical ICU. I've been searching for a way to do more, a way to know that what we're doing is actually helping to heal the patient. This podcast is exactly what I need. I can't stop listening. I can't stop shaking my head in awe… This is my new gospel."
Critical Care Rehab Summit
Best Practices for Early Mobility and Return to Function
July 18–19, 2023
Attend the Summit your way – Join LIVE or ON-DEMAND!
Session 1 | 9:00am – 11:00am Central Walking Home From the ICU: Regaining Alertness, Orientation, and Mobility with Dr. Kali Dayton, DNP, AGACNP | Click here for information about Kali Dayton
Dr. Dayton, host of the Walking Home from the ICU podcast, provides essential evidence-based recommendations for modernizing mobility practices in the ICU. Discover contemporary approaches to enhance functional outcomes in a complex patient population. Plus, you'll learn proven interventions to re-stimulate functional – cognition, alertness, orientation, and motor planning.
Session 2 | 11:15am – 1:15pm Central Innovative Rehab Strategies: Redefining Functional Goals in Acute Care with Dr. Kirsten Davin, OTD, OTR/L | Click here for information about Kirsten Davin
Working in the ICU setting requires a constantly evolving skill set. When handling trauma and multi-organ involvement – be prepared to make appropriate and safe clinical decisions on the spot. This session will introduce you to the latest techniques for promoting recovery and regaining function in critically ill patients. PLUS, you'll learn new treatment approaches to enhance activities of independent daily living (ADLs) such as – dressing, grooming, toileting, AD use, and more.
Session 3 | 2:15pm – 4:15pm Central Connecting Brain to Body: Early Functional Rehab for Neurological Trauma with Dr. Benjamin White, PT, DPT, C/NDT | Click here for information about Benjamin J. White
Patients who have experienced a stroke, brain injury, or related neurologic event are in a sensitive position in the acute stage of recovery and healing. Doing too much can produce life-altering implications, and doing too little can delay recovery and create future barriers to achieving functional independence. Getting the balance right is critical. Join Dr. Benjamin White and discover the latest evidence on early mobilization following a neurological event. Review important Clinical Practice Guidelines and safety considerations when working with this patient population. Unlock effective interventions to enhance neuroplasticity, gait training, balance, coordination, and much more!
Day 2 | July 19th, 2023
Session 1 | 9:00am – 11:00am Central Polypharmacy and Delirium: Impaired Mobility for the Geriatric Patient with Dr. Kiplee Bell, MD, PA | Click here for information about Kiplee Bell
Join Dr. Kiplee Bell and discover the most common causes leading to acute delirium and impaired mobility. With a concise review of the body system and metabolic causes, you'll analyze the influence of polypharmacy on the geriatric patient population. Discover causative effects on - balance, cognition, fall risks, functional independence, and safety. Enhance your clinical proficiency with evidence-based strategies for everything from effective communication, early identification, goal planning, and MORE!
Session 2 | 11:15am – 1:15pm Central Reimagining Speech, Swallowing, and Mobility in Critical Care Settings with Jerome Quellier, MS, SLP-CCC | Click here for information about Jerome Quellier
Critically ill patients in my instances are reliant upon tracheostomies/vent dependency to maintain stability. Both of which can lead to complications for speech, swallowing, respiration, and mobility. Early therapy is pivotal to lead these patients to the recovery they desire. Unlock the most current evidence-based interventions for – dysphagia, communication, aspiration, mobility, and more. AND refresh your knowledge of important equipment and proper placement to always be prepared for any rehab treatment
Session 3 | 2:15pm – 4:15pm Central The Importance of Positioning, Play and Purpose for Babies and Children
in The PICU with Molly Rejent, MOT, OTR/L | Click here for information about Molly Rejent
When babies and children find themselves in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, the tendency can be to 'allow them to rest to heal.' While there is truth in this ideal, oftentimes movement and basic activities are actually what can lead them on the path to healing more quickly. Even in illness, kids should be kids and be allowed to express this in different ways. In this session, you will learn the value of these ideals through tangible and experiential case studies.
BONUS ON-DEMAND PACKAGE
The learning doesn't stop live! Including up to 15 Self-Study CE Hours included with this Summit!
That's a $669.95 Value, Yours Free!
⇒Acute Care & ICU Rehab: Strategies for the Medically Complex Patient
Explore the latest interventions for improving functional mobility, strength, independence, and outcomes in acute care rehab. Designed for all practice levels, from the new grad to the veteran acute care professional, this hands-on course will provide you with an updated knowledge base for making appropriate decisions within the ICU and acute care environments, implementing assessment and treatment tools, integrating existing treatment plans with progression into the plan of care, and adjust or accommodate treatment interventions across the hospital stay through the transition out of the hospital.
Discover new treatments for:
Early mobilization
Management of lines, wires, and tubes
Respiratory distress
Intubation/Vent dependency
⇒Diaphragm Rehabilitation for Cardiopulmonary Patients: After Mechanical Ventilation
Do you have the necessary skills to appropriately address diaphragmatic rehabilitation? Dr. Rina Pandya will walk you through the new techniques and protocols that you need to successfully help this growing patient population. With this specialized training, you'll be able to confidently address these timely challenges that rehab professionals are facing today:
Improve posture and function
Strengthen the diaphragm while on bed rest or reduced mobility
Minimize complications from immobilization
Faster recovery
⇒Keeping Patients Off the Floor:
Identifying Fall Risk and Preventing Falls in Aging Adults Throughout the Continuum of Care
This session will provide insight into identification of potential patient fall risk factors throughout the continuum of care. As falls have been identified by the CDC as a public health challenge, costing aging individuals their independence and quality of life, and related healthcare costs upwards of $50 billion dollars for non-fatal falls, fall prevention has become a nationally recognized initiative. Participants will learn how to integrate approaches to facilitate prevention of falls through appropriate patient management including screening, intervention and referral.
⇒Navigating Pain Management and Sedation Levels in the Critical Care Environment
Balancing analgesia and sedation for critically ill patients is challenging and we still see a discrepancy in the approach to sedation of critically ill patients. How do we avoid negative acute and long-term consequences of untreated pain and agitation? In this session, Dr. Dunwoody will help you understand how to provide safe care when patients are provided analgesia and sedation to prevent pain and anxiety, permit invasive procedures, reduce stress and oxygen consumption, and improve synchrony with mechanical ventilation. Regional preferences, patient assessment and history, unique critical care challenges and individual patient needs will be discussed. A review of how pain and sedation translate to practice will help you provide safe and quality care to your ill patients.
⇒Emerging and Current Infectious Diseases in the Critical Care Setting
Since the beginning of the 21st century, we have seen novel infectious diseases and infectious diseases not endemic to the US manifest themselves in an explosive way. The daily news programs and the internet are providing sometimes overwhelming information that is often inadequate in scope. In this session, Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS, will provide the latest guidelines and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) on current infectious diseases affecting our patients: SARS-CoV2/COVID-19; Monkeypox; hepatitis-A, -B and -C; tuberculosis and Influenza. In addition to history and physical assessment findings, Paul will also highlight recognition methods, FDA-approved and investigational medications and, where indicated, vaccines. Case studies will solidify learning objectives.
⇒Wound Prevention and Management: An Integrated Approach to Patient-Centered Care
Chronic wounds are increasing in parallel with population aging and no single discipline has the breadth of skillset needed to recognize the risk factors, the wound types, or the evidence-based management strategies. Further, working through the lens of patient-centered care means that not all 'wounds' can heal, but we can strive to heal the person with the wound. This session will provide participants with the ability to understand the risk factors of chronic wounds and non-healing, recognized the most common chronic wound types, like pressure injuries, lower extremity arterial wounds, venous leg ulcers, and neuropathic ulcers. Further, basic interventions and treatment pathways will be discussed and considered within the lens of patient-centered care. This session will provide participants with the tools to empower team collaboration and ultimately implement patient-centered wound care.
MEET YOUR CRITICAL CARE COHORT
Kiplee Bell, MD, PA, earned board certification as a physician assistant, an additional master's degree in Gerontology, and finally her doctorate in medicine. Over the course of her career, Kiplee has worked in acute care, urgent care, ambulatory care, and long-term care settings. Currently, she treats geriatric patients for a wide variety of medical and behavioral symptoms. You can be sure that Kiplee will deliver a comprehensive and up-to-date geriatric pharmacology presentation, walking through the body systems: neuro, endocrine, cardiac, pulmonary, GI, infectious disease, and musculoskeletal.
Kirsten Davin, OTD, OTR/L, ATP, SMS, is a veteran Occupational Therapist with over 21 years of extensive experience in a variety of inpatient and acute care practice since obtaining her occupational therapy degree in 2001. She is best known for her live, national speaking tours, as she has conducted thousands of workshops and courses on the topics of splinting, seating/positioning, assistive technology, acute care assessment and intervention, and work/life balance.
Kali Dayton, DNP, AGACNP, is a critical care nurse practitioner. She obtained her Doctorate in Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nursing Practice from the University of Utah. She also holds accreditation as an adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner (AGACNP-BC) through American Nurses Credentialing Center. Dr. Dayton dedicates her experiences in the "Awake and Walking ICU" and ICUs around the USA to elevate ICU sedation and mobility practices by working to align them with current research.
Jerome Quellier, MS, CCC-SLP, is a specialist in tracheostomy/vent management and traumatic brain injury at a 500+ bed Level 1 Trauma hospital in Saint Paul, MN. He has accumulated 27+ years of acute, residential, and outpatient rehabilitation experience. During his tenure at the hospital, he has focused on neuro-based diagnostics and intervention for cognitive-linguistic deficits, dysphagia, head and neck cancer management, and patient advocacy.
Molly Rejent, MOT, OTR/L, is a pediatric specialist who has provided pediatric occupational therapy for over 18 years. Experienced in a broad range of pediatric settings including school-based, home health/early intervention, outpatient, acute care, and inpatient rehabilitation, Molly combines her passion for working with the whole child and her expertise in creative and individualized treatment of the most medically complex cases.
Benjamin White, PT, DPT, MBA, C/NDT, LSVT BIG, is an expert in stroke rehabilitation who serves as the lead neurological therapist at a not-for-profit healthcare institution in Texas. A graduate of the University of Texas Health Science Center's physical therapy program, he has treated a wide array of neurological diagnoses over the years, from concussions and vestibular disorders to stroke, Parkinson's, and Guillain-Barre syndrome.
