1/🧵 Imagine Delirium…#COVID or not…
“Her mind tottered & slithered again, broke from its foundation & spun like a cast wheel in a ditch…She sank through deeps & deeps of darkness…
Katherine A. Porter, “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” on her delirium in 1918 Spanish flu pandemic
“Her mind tottered & slithered again, broke from its foundation & spun like a cast wheel in a ditch…She sank through deeps & deeps of darkness…
Katherine A. Porter, “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” on her delirium in 1918 Spanish flu pandemic
2/ Until she lay like a stone at the bottom of life…a stench of corruption filled her nostrils…she opened
her eyes & saw pale light through a coarse cloth
over her face, knew the smell of death was in her
body & struggled to lift her hand.”
Spare your patient. How?
#A2Fbundle
her eyes & saw pale light through a coarse cloth
over her face, knew the smell of death was in her
body & struggled to lift her hand.”
Spare your patient. How?
#A2Fbundle
3/fin
This investigation of 13 studies found that earlier mobilization of ICU patients reduced the risk of #delirium by 47% and by nearly 2 days in total duration.
To do this we must stop sedation & have patients safely able to participate in walking.
bit.ly/3gTYvVk
This investigation of 13 studies found that earlier mobilization of ICU patients reduced the risk of #delirium by 47% and by nearly 2 days in total duration.
To do this we must stop sedation & have patients safely able to participate in walking.
bit.ly/3gTYvVk
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