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Critical Care Recovery
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Researchers, patients, family members, health care staff and website developers have come together to create this website. It is based on over 120 interviews with former Intensive Care patients and family members at different stages of recovery. This website is aimed at: patients who have been on intensive care relatives and families who have been affected by their loved one being in intensive care.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis guidance, from the Intensive Care Society, states that prone positioning is a simple intervention that can be done in most circumstances, is compatible with all forms of basic respiratory support and requires little or no equipment in the conscious patient. Given its potential for improving oxygenation in COVID-19 patients the authors advocate that a trial of conscious prone positioning be performed on all suitable patients on the ward. This guidance includes a flow diagram to identify when it may be beneficial to trial conscious proning.
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COVID-19 therapies in the US
Claire Cox posted an article in Good practice and useful resources
This document designed by the Patient Safety Movement is a dynamic document that gives a summary of therapies given to COVID patients in the US.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis resource has been developed by a group of multi-disciplinary health professionals at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. The purpose of the website is to support patients with their initial recovery once discharged from hospital following treatment for COVID-19. It is hoped that the information and advice provided will assist patients and their families starting their rehabilitation journey. Although hospital admission is referred to throughout this resource, it can also be used for patients who remain in their own homes and we hope that the information and advice provided will assist all patients and their families starting their rehabilitation journey following COVID-19.
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Content ArticleThe COVID-19: Recovery Response service has been set up by the UK Sepsis Trust and offers professional support to anyone who has been critically ill in hospital with COVID-19 and their family.
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Content ArticlePhysiotherapy is critical for treating those worst affected by Covid19, including access to community rehabilitation after discharge from hospital. We face a huge increase in demand for high quality community rehab services. The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) sets out what system leaders and policy makers will need to do to meet this challenge.
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ICU Remote Learning Course
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This course, endorsed by the Intensive Care Society, provides non-ICU clinicians with rapid, targeted and effective training to support critical care delivery for COVID-19 patients. Topics include: ICU monitoring and interpretation Physiotherapy assessment and management of ICU patients Basic good ICU care Ventilation COVID and ARDS Management Vasoactive and sedative drugs. To register, contact CIRLCrehab@brunel.ac.uk- Posted
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Visiting the Intensive Care Unit: activity book for children
Claire Cox posted an article in Patient-centred care
'Visiting the Intensive Care Unit' is an activity book for children who are visiting a relative in an intensive care unit (ICU). This resource is free to NHS hospitals.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis blog from the European Respiratory Society, discusses a joint statement that was signed by individuals working on behalf of the Italian Thoracic Society (ITS - AIPO), Association for the Rehabilitation of Respiratory Failure (ARIR) and the Italian Respiratory Society (SIP/IRS). They conclude that the dramatic spread of the current COVID-19 epidemic in Italy has spurred into action also respiratory rehabilitation specialists (pulmonologists and respiratory therapists), who have been engaged for years in the care of patients with disabilities secondary to respiratory diseases and/or conditions. Their experience acquired in the management of chronic and acute respiratory failure is proving to be a fundamental asset for the management of patients during COVID-19 epidemic. Hence, it is likely that the reorganisation involved in taking care of this scenario will not be a short-term matter.
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Content ArticleThis is the YouTube Channel for the UCSF School of Medicine in the USA. Here you are able to listen and watch webinars on the latest 'grand rounds' on COVID-19. These webinars cover: paediatrics shape of the pandemic, digital innovation epidemiology, science & clinical manifestations of COVID-19 research general updates.
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Standard Operating Procedure for ICU/HDU Handover
Claire Cox posted an article in Transfers of care
This Standard Operating Procedure for ICU/HDU handover has been produced by the anaesthetic team at Brighton and Sussex Universoty Hospitals to aid a safe handover of care to the receiving team on the Intensive Care Unit/High Dependency Unit (ICU/HDU). This double sided document is used to prepare the patient for transfer and collate all necessary information ready for the receiving team. It also includes the process and a handy check list. The form can then be placed in the patient notes as documentation of the handover. Also attached is the South East Coast Critical Care Network Critical Care Intrahospital Transfer form.- Posted
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Content ArticleWorking in collaboration, The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, Intensive Care Society, Association of Anaesthetists and Royal College of Anaesthetists have developed this website to provide the UK intensive care and anaesthetic community with information, guidance and resources required to support their understanding of and management of COVID-19. Intensive care practitioners and anaesthetists are integral to the safe and effective care of patients diagnosed with COVID-19, and play a role in informing and reassuring the public about this viral outbreak.
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Content ArticleThis clinical guidance from the NHS provides information on the care of critically ill adult patients with COVID-19 to practising clinicians at the bedside. The COVID-19 pandemic is placing an extraordinary burden on critical care, which is being met through the creation of surge capacity within and beyond hospital walls. A large number of non-specialist healthcare providers will be supporting critical care specialists to provide care. Staff safety and wellbeing will be crucial in maintaining the resilience of critical care provision. This guide summarises the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 and offers advice on: • antibiotics and corticosteroids • treatment of other conditions in the context of COVID-19. • clinical decision-making when resources may be constrained • management of respiratory failure • management of other organ failure. • continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and non-invasive ventilation (NIV) • early intubation – indications and role.
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Safe handover of a critically unwell patient to intensive care
Claire Cox posted an article in Techniques
Handing over a patient to a team in critical care needs to be clear, concise and safe. Quite often there are distractions from staff moving the patient, attaching monitoring, starting the ventilator, asking questions and general background noise. This can lead to important information being missed, not understood or misinterpreted which could lead to patient harm.- Posted
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Content Article"We talk about coronavirus all the time, but it’s often in terms of a bigger picture. I find it hard to make sense of that bigger picture from the frontline. In a crisis of scale I want to tell the story I’ve seen – the story of a pandemic unfolding one person at a time." A blog published in the Guardian by Shaan Sahota, a junior doctor working in London.
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Content ArticleSince the severity of disease is closely related to the prognosis, the basic and essential strategies to improve outcomes that we should adhere to remain the early detection of high-risk and critically ill patients This retrospective analysis of casein Jiangsu Province proved a good consistency between early screening of SpO2, RR, HR and early warning model. Therefore, a flowchart integrating early warning model and early screening procedure is recommended for high risk patients recognition and all patients’ screening to make it possible for early intervention. This article includes flow charts for: early recognition of high-risk and critically ill patients management of critically ill patients.
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Content ArticleCARDMEDIC was inspired by a news article on a patient surviving COVID-19 after an admission to a UK Intensive Care Unit (ICU), where he described feeling terrified of not being able to understand what his healthcare providers were saying, due to the limitations of communicating through Personal Protective Equipment (face masks, visors, hoods etc). CARDMEDIC is a collection of communication flashcards designed to break through the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) barrier, improving transfer of vital information from frontline healthcare professionals to unwell and critically ill patients. They are also used as an upskilling training tool, for example by healthcare professionals and volunteers working outside their usual realms of practice. They are simple and succinct, using basic language to share information and describe the plan of action. Set out in alphabetical order, it should be easy to find what you’re looking for. You may wish to use the “HELLO MY NAME IS…” card at the start of every patient interaction to introduce yourself and set the scene for using the flashcards. The flashcards can be used in electronic format on either the patient’s or hospital’s phone / tablet / smart device, or printed, laminated, annotated and re-used – write on, wipe off. CARDMEDIC are continually expanding their database, so please get in touch with suggestions or comments, as well as ideas for further flashcards.
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Content ArticleThis film, produced by Hearts in Healthcare, shows Kathy talking about her experience of being in an Intensive Care Unit following a serious accident. Kathy talks about the importance of communicating to patients, even when they are unable to respond, and recalls one particular nurse who made a huge difference to her recovery. An incredibly powerful account that beautifully illustrates human-centred healthcare.
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