Doing the basics better
I started this venture back in March in response to COVID-19. I saw many Physical Therapists and other rehab professionals shutting their doors because it wasn’t safe to keep them open. I saw an opportunity to improve our profession by addressing a deficit in practice: the lack of cardiopulmonary skill implementation. It wasn’t even thatContinue reading “COVID-19: Where the Heck Are We?”
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We can basically thank our old friend sepsis for the presentation of strokes in patients with COVID-19. This virus has changed so much and so frequently since it landed stateside, but there was evidence from its China days that neurological involvement was implicated. Initially, though, it all started in the lungs. We talked about thisContinue reading “So Now COVID-19 Results in Strokes (and other neat things about ACE2 receptors)”
We have been hearing all kinds of things about proning. What’s the big deal? Aren’t we just flipping people over? Well… yes! That’s exactly what we are doing. But here’s why its a bit more complicated than that. We’ve already talked about the role of PTs in supporting and improving V/Q matching. Proning helps withContinue reading “Proning”
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Doctor B (the PT)