Occupational Therapist with a passion for OT practice in ICU and neurological rehabilitation. PhD candidate and BaSCI Clinical Lead for MN BICS
Brisbane, Queensland
Joined July 2019
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Andrea Rapolthy retweeted
Good description of what life post an Icu admission can be life for our patients. Showing the importance of remembering there is always #personbehindthepatient we ALL need to be #Rehablegend and if you don’t look for #delirium you won’t find it. #CriticalCare
Life After the ICU - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/science/arch…
Andrea Rapolthy retweeted
Rehabilitation of COVID-19 patients [an Italian perspective]
- without rehabilitation, #COVID19 patients could have dramatically reduced chances of returning to a pre-infection functional status
medicaljournals.se/jrm/conte… #covidrehab
Andrea Rapolthy retweeted
COVID19 patient spent 6 days walking on the ventilator, 8 days proned, then 4 days standing and working on walking until extubated. He got himself into his car to go straight home 10 days later today. He shut the door without looking back. I don't think we'll see him again. :)
Andrea Rapolthy retweeted
A very short video about criticalcarerecovery.com/, for ICU patients & their family members. COVID and UK wide versions of the website in development. Please share.
Andrea Rapolthy retweeted
🚨 OTs take note: for ARDS survivors, 70% and 66% report clin. significant fatigue at 6 and 12 months, respectively.
Link to paper: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3230…
Thank you @DrMeganHoseyPhD for bringing to my attention.
Andrea Rapolthy retweeted
🚨 Our NEW guidance for conscious proning 🚨
Authors: @Bemplex @janedean1975 @LeDyslexicMedic and davidwhitmore
Download the guidance here ▶️bit.ly/39YFesJ
More ICS mulit professional team guidance can be found here ▶️ bit.ly/3c9112c
Andrea Rapolthy retweeted
Wonderful article with contributions from insightful experts. The public should know what life after the ICU is like. Do we understand this from inside the ICU?
@DrDaleNeedham
washingtonpost.com/health/20…
Andrea Rapolthy retweeted
What we need to know from patient/family is
1) what makes their life meaningful
2) what is most important
3) what they are most worried about
As long as we know these, we can make a recommendation (give a guidance).
I wrote a paper about this, which will be out soon.
@snakagawa_md we’re working on a way to make completing advance directives easier. What’s the greatest impact we can bring to your work?
Andrea Rapolthy retweeted
New report from @ICNARC (Tnx @smitheimearm ) 38.3% of patients d/c from ICU require assistance with ADLs #COVID2019 #investinrehab icnarc.org/DataServices/Atta…
Andrea Rapolthy retweeted
Just to say for any critical care OTs our there.. there is a Facebook page Covid4CCOT to share knowledge, facts and experience. It’s more specific than the Covid4OT page
Andrea Rapolthy retweeted
Two yr post-DC outcomes study by Dale Hengesbach from RML. 189 CCI patients had comprehensive 1 yr follow-up data thx to monthly contact to reduce drop out. 75% of the time is spent at home/skilled nursing after the LTCH but ADL goals are usually not met. #icurehab
Occupational Therapy in the ICU: A Scoping Review of 221 Doc... : Critical Care Medicine journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/…
Andrea Rapolthy retweeted
I am BIG believer in the opportunity for #OT to drive #icurehab and #hospital outcomes. To get there 1) consider #OT as you develop your #icurehab plan 2) invest in training your #OTs 3) advocate for #OT schools to introduce #acutecare in curriculum #everyBODYmoves @HopkinsAMP
What is the role of Occupational Therapists in the ICU #CritCareMed @SCCM journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/…
Andrea Rapolthy retweeted
Agree w: below.
This is why we specifically have an OT-specific meet-up during our social/networking event at the Hopkins @icurehab conference (coming very soon: Oct 10-12 2019: hopkinsmedicine.org/pulmonar…)
We want to meet all OTs interested in #ICUrehab & help build the network
There are limited OTs nationally in ICU please attend and get your voice heard. Together the MDT and patient outcome is stronger @ICS_updates
The importance of vocational rehab in ABI -Alena Murray representing our new MSH TRS! #otaus19 #SquadGoals
