2-Day-Acute Care Rehab Certificate Course-Strategies for Multi-Trauma Patients – Steven Rankin

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This digital seminar is currently on pre-order meaning that the video will not be ready until 2-3 weeks after the program has taken place.

In any acute or ICU setting, you’ve got to be ready to encounter any and everything when integrating rehab into the plan of care – particularly for patients with multiple traumatic injuries.

From establishing early mobilization when treating multiple extremity injuries to managing lines/wires/tubes to discharge planning and billing correctly under the new guidelines – acute and ICU rehab can be overwhelming and quite stressful, even for the most seasoned clinician.

Gain the confidence you deserve in the hospital setting by exploring new interventions for improving functional mobility, independence, and outcomes with your most challenging patients. Even if you already use some of the techniques, this recording refines your skills and goes a long way in making your work more efficient and effective.

Designed for all practice levels, from the new grad to the veteran acute care practitioner, this hands-on certificate course will provide you with an updated knowledge base for making appropriate decisions within the ICU and acute care environments.

Gain age-appropriate strategies on how to best evaluate and treat patients with specific injuries, including multiple extremities, TBI, axial skeleton injuries, burns, and gunshot wounds – from acute to post-acute phases.

In this recording, this is your chance to gain a certificate in acute care rehab, elevating you among your peers to bring the highest quality of care to those medically complex patients.

1. Discuss the trauma care delivery system including your facility’s and profession’s role in that system.
2. Articulate mechanisms of injury and specific implications for therapy.
3. Identify incidence and prevalence of traumatic injury and death including important patient factors.
4. Compare operative and non-operative management of injuries.
5. Review case studies on acute rehab strategies for upper extremity injuries.
6. Apply acute treatments for various upper and lower extremity injuries in lab session.
7. Review various combinations of injuries and implications for treatment and co-treatment.
8. Explain complications and how to prevent and to anticipate how to intervene.
9. Determine therapy role in discharge planning and considerations for discharge destination/follow-up services.
10. Describe the role of standardized and non-standardized assessments for planning of interventions and communication to other providers.
11. Identify available resources and appropriate assessment in acute care.
12. Review case studies determining when to co-treat patients with other professions.

OVERVIEW OF TRAUMA CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM

• Trauma care centers
• Triaging algorithms

INCIDENCE AND PREVALANCE OF TRAUMATIC INJURIES

• Who gets hurt? How and why?
  • Importance of what demographic information can tell us and how it can affect therapy
• How do client factors influence our decisions?

MECHANISMS OF INJURY

• What does it tell us?
• High vs. low impact injuries

EVALUATION: WHO DOES WHAT?

• By trauma surgeon
• By consultants
• By therapists
• Case Studies

COMPLICATIONS YOU MAY ENCOUNTER AND STEPS ON HOW TO HANDLE THEM

• Sepsis
• Drug and alcohol use
• Pulmonary embolism
• Pain
  • Acute pain vs. acute on chronic pain
  • Multi-modal approaches

SPECIFIC INJURIES AND ACUTE STRATEGIES FOR THE TREATMENT – CASE STUDIES AND LAB

FRACTURE MANAGEMENT

• Operative and non-operative treatments
• Indications for various treatments

UPPER EXTREMITY INJURIES

• Wrist/hand
• Elbow, splinting considerations
• Shoulder – diagnosis, provocative tests

HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION

• Elbow trauma
• Burns
• TBI

HEAD INJURIES

• Facial fractures, Le Fort taxonomy
• TBIs
• Is it a brain injury?
• ETOH withdrawal
• Delirium
• Underlying dementia

TRUNK/AXIAL SKELETON INJURIES

• Rib fractures
• Spinal fractures
• Pelvic fractures

LOWER EXTREMITY INJURIES

• Schatzker taxonomy
• Weber taxonomy
• Transfers and ambulation
• Weight bearing
• Amputations
• Splinting/orthotics/special cases

BURNS AND GUNSHOT WOUNDS

• Positioning, splinting
• Improve range of motion
• Precautions
• Fractures
• Soft tissue and vascular injuries

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: THERAPY EVALUATION AND TREATMENT

• Where do I start?
• Standardized assessment in the acute setting
  • Balance/mobility
  • ADL
  • Functional cognition
• When do I co-treat?
• Caregiver training on c-collars, CTOs, TLOs and more
• Better billing and documentation under the new CMS guidelines
• Discharge planning and return to work recommendations
• How to dramatically reduce readmission
• Case Studies