Andrea Rapolthy

@cm_iezzi_SLT @GSTTnhs @GSTT_ICU Australia welcomes you!

It’s with a very heavy heart that I’ve made the difficult decision to leave my dream job @GSTTnhs @GSTT_ICU to relocate to Australia. Incredible opportunity to lead a brilliant team in a world class ICU guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/our-va…

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

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/content/ht… #covidrehab

@TJQPNI @RNOHnhs Please share - very interested to see this work!

Morning Trauma meeting with another referral for #brachialplexus #nerveinjury from #pronepositioning after #COVID treatment. We will have guidance on this and a referral protocol published by next week. #PNIUnit @RNOHnhs

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. :)

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.

@anniemccluskey2 @trishgreenhalgh Stay strong - everything you are doing is perfect to aid his recovery. Thank you for sharing.

@trishgreenhalgh My partner is one of the 5% in ICU in a critical condition since 31 March. I didn’t know if I’d see him again. He survived, 20 days intubated and sedated. No photo till 11 Apr, when a kind nurse sent a photo. Immense joy. Still in ICU, still unwell, but alive.

🚨 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/32304774 Thank you @DrMeganHoseyPhD for bringing to my attention.

@kerri_schOT Happy to chat anytime - I’m an OT from Australia in ICU ..... about to finish my PhD in OT/ICU so feel free to reach out - I can share references etc! Welcome on board!

Any Intensive Care OT’s out there who are happy to discuss their role etc? Our team are looking at ways to integrate the OT role into ICU! Much appreciated ⭐️

@PenelopeFirshma @CriticalCareOT Contact me!!!

Met last night with several OTs who work in critical care @CriticalCareOT (virtually of course). So fabulous to have enough OTs in this specialist field to be able to share experiences and consider best practice. We’ve come so far! Looking forward to the next one!

🚨 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

@naomialgeo @willchegwidden @uclh Super proud! I emailed this link to all the ICU OTs in Australia! Great work!

@willchegwidden @uclh You’re very good @willchegwidden - thanks for sharing and hope all are well over there X

It;s been posted here before but for OTs suddenly working in crit-care or post crit-care here is a recent article from a @uclh NHNN/QueenSquare past colleague @naomialgeo emerald.com/insight/conten…

@Eve_Alvarez_OT @cristobaless @sochimioficial @SebaGallegosTO @verorojasjara Now we need the English version! 😉Great work thank you!!!

@cristobaless @sochimioficial @SebaGallegosTO @verorojasjara wfot.org/assets/resourc… Aquí esta el link para descargar el material!

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 #click=https://t.co/Ywefs8HN9n" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04…

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.

New report from @ICNARC (Tnx @smitheimearm ) 38.3% of patients d/c from ICU require assistance with ADLs #COVID2019 #investinrehab icnarc.org/DataServices/A…

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

@jfall33 @LouiseAWorrall @TantamKate @UHP_NHS Please email it out! It looks so good and really important in reducing long term weakness and dependency!

@LouiseAWorrall @TantamKate @UHP_NHS Let’s do it! I’ve emailed you and the rest of the rehab team tonight.

This week - We gave out first #Covid19 #ICURehab handbooks & new recovery journey poster We are now running our ICU expert by experience groups online We launched our new Resp #ICURehab #Covid19 #MDT Team My pledge - #NoRehablegendLeftBehind @UHP_NHS #RightToRehab

@aroradrn @DrDaleNeedham Aaaa

Tweeps, here's a few questions I want to ask... In preparation for session 18 of #ICSSOA Q1. Do your ICU regularly use physical restraints?