Event: Rehabilitation during and after critical care
Date: Tuesday 7 May 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Venue: Online
- Peter Nydahl (University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Kiel, Germany)
- Jason Beeching (Sepsis Survivor & Patient Advocate, UK)
- Lorraine Abela (Mater Dei Hospital, Malta)
This webinar will discuss aspects of rehabilitation during and after a patient’s stay in a critical care unit with a strong focus on patients’ experiences.
Some topics for discussion:
- Real dreams and delirium in intensive care
- The ABCDEF bundle
- Patient Diaries
- Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS)
- ICU acquired weakness
- Discharge and follow up
- Patient experiences during and after intensive care
This webinar is open to anyone who is interested in the topic, but should be particularly relevant to healthcare and other professionals who work in a critical care or rehabilitation setting.
This webinar is free of charge but requires prior online registration.
Additional information is available on the Facebook Page.
Speaker Bios
Dr Peter Nydahl - University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Kiel, Germany
Peter worked on ICU for 30 years and always tried to start rehabilitation of patients as early as possible. He started studying nursing research beside his practical work and performed many interprofessional research projects. The focus of his work is on holistic critical care rehabilitation including early mobilisation, delirium prevention and therapy, family integration, and ICU diaries. He lives with his wife in Kiel, Germany, at the Baltic Sea, loves running in the morning and is the proud granddad of five (yes!) grandchildren.
Mr Jason Beecham – Patient advocate, United Kingdom
Jason - the story of a sepsis survivor. In November 2015 Jason was perfectly fit and well. 48 hours after thinking he had a cold, he was critically ill with sepsis. This life changing experience has left him with many observations during his treatment and rehabilitation, which he has shared with many healthcare students and staff. He hopes this will help patients in the future.
Ms Lorraine Abela, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta
Lorraine is an experienced physiotherapy practitioner with the last 15 years dedicated to critical care. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, she actively participated in planning, staff training, and workload management. Her passion lies in early mobility within critical care, where she advocates for its integration into standard care protocols. Lorraine mentors junior physiotherapists and actively participates in on-call induction programmes and lectures on critical care physiotherapy. She also serves as a patient safety coordinator at Mater Dei Hospital, as part of the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement team (PaSQIT).