Where are we sending this man?
Independent, thriving, ready to leave you forever.
What is home?
This line is the MVP of long-term IV access—placed in the arm but can go the distance for weeks of therapy.
What is a PICC?
Patient is fine in the morning but confused, disoriented, and trying to get out of bed at night.
What is sundowning?
No bending, lifting, twisting = your patient moves like a plank of wood.
What are spinal precautions?
OT began focusing on meaningful activity during this war period.
What is WWI?
Can tolerate intense therapy and lowkey needs it.
What is Inpatient Rehab?
A spicy line—gives real-time BP and has zero room for your nonsense.
What is an art line?
Patient isn’t agitated—just sleepy, disengaged, and barely participating… and everyone is like “they’re fine.”
What is hypoactive delirium?
No pushing/pulling, no arms overhead, hug a pillow like your life depends on it.
What are sternal precautions?
This movement shifted OT from arts-and-crafts toward a more medical and biomechanical focus.
Needs help, low endurance, vibes = “please don’t make me do 3 hours.”
What is SNF?
This line sets up shop in the neck or chest for meds, fluids, and CVP monitoring. What is it?
What is a CVC?
Patient is agitated, trying to get out of bed, pulling at lines, and says he's on a mission to get a cigarette. What containment strategy might be used?
What is a posey bed?
Your patient had limb lengthening surgery (distraction osteogenesis). You open the orders and brace yourself for their new precautions. What are they?
What is TTWB bilaterally?
This model focuses on volition, habituation, and performance capacity.
What is MoHO?
Unsafe but insists “I’ll be fine.”
This line goes on a full journey—inserted into a large vein and advanced all the way toward the heart to measure pressures like cardiac output and CVP.
What is a Swan Ganz?
It’s nighttime, your delirious patient is wide awake, climbing out of bed, and suddenly this med appears in the orders like clockwork. What is it?
What is Seroquel?
Patient is told they can only lift about 1–2 pounds… and immediately attempts a full body push-off OOB. What precaution were they supposed to be following?
What is coffee cup weight bearing?
These early OT practitioners worked with injured soldiers during the war.
What are reconstruction aides?
You get a message from RNCM at 3pm and this needs to happen for today's d/c.
What is caregiver training?
Don't even look at these the wrong way. These large-bore cannulas are placed in major vessels (like femoral or jugular) and require extreme caution.
What are ECMO cannulas?
Your patient is acutely confused, pulling at lines, and hasn’t slept in 2 days… you know the team is about to ask you for ....
What is a cognitive evaluation?
Your patient has facial fractures and now must live a deeply inconvenient lifestyle. Name those sinus precautions.
What is no blowing your nose, no drinking through straws, sneeze with your mouth open, and no scuba diving?
This FoR says “if we fix the body, the function will follow” and focuses on strength, ROM, and endurance.
What is the Biomechanical FoR?