Who Does What?
This discipline focuses on improving strength, endurance, and mobility such as walking, transferring, and bed mobility.
Who is physical therapy?
This comforting technique involves gently holding the baby in a flexed position, often with boundaries around their body.
What is 4 handed care?
This system determines appropriate mobility activities for patients in the PICU and CVICU
What are Early Mobility levels?
This can be found in the Pyxis and is used for safe patient handling during transfers or ambulation
What is a gait belt?
You walk into the PICU and see a 6 mo baby on high-flow nasal cannula, awake, in a supine position for the last 2 hours. Name at least 2 ways to achieve their level activities
What is out of bed holding, play mat activities, high chair, feeder seat
This discipline often addresses activities of daily living (ADLs) like dressing, grooming, and feeding in the ICU.
Who is Occupational Therapy?
This positioning technique involves aligning the infant’s head, hands, and feet toward the center of their body to support self-regulation and motor development.
What is midline positioning?
Activities in this level include ROM, rolling and appropriate positioning
What is Level 1 or Red?
A rocker bottom chair that can comes in several sizes and can be used in the crib to promote upright position
What is a feeder seat?
Your patient has been admitted to PICU for 5 days and is progressively getting weaker, now requires maxA for bed mobility. What should you consider?
If they have a therapy consult and advocating for rehab involvement. OR utilize rehab recommended equipment
This therapist might evaluate and recommend fine motor activities or adaptive equipment for feeding readiness and sensory regulation.
Who is an occupational therapist?
This state is ideal for engaging with an infant during therapy and promotes learning and interaction.
What is quiet and alert?
Activities in this level include sitting upright, sitting EOB, or getting out of bed
What are Level 2 or Yellow activities?
Requires a sling for mobility
What is a hoyer lift?
Your patient is a 1 mo baby that cries during every hands on time. Name at least 3 things you you do to minimize stress?
Cluster care, utilize 4 handed care, modulate movements, minimize stimuli
Both PT and OT work together to achieve this shared goal for ICU patients, often those that are intubated, on ECMO, etc
What is Early Mobility?
This technique provides the baby with surrounding supports for calming and containment
What are firm boundaries?
ABCDEF Bundle or "Mobility" in patient care flowsheet
Where is the correct place to document mobility?
This chair has adjustable pieces utilized for patients that need more support than a regular w/c
What is an activity chair?
Your patient is a dependent 16 yo male on home trach/vent settings, their w/c is at bedside. what level are they and how are you mobilizing him?
He is a level 3/green and utilize a hoyer lift
This team member may be the first to trial mobility equipment such as a tilt-in-space wheelchair or standing frame to assess a patient’s tolerance.
Who is a physical therapist?
This scheduling technique allows for patient care activities to occur around the same time to limit patient stress
What is clustered care?
What is the scoops program?
Utilized for patients with good head and trunk control but requires MaxA for stand/pivot transfers
What is the sara stedy?
Your 5 yo intubated pt (PEEP 6 and FiO2 40) is awake and alert. what level are they and what are you doing to achieve their activities)
They are level 2/yellow. can sit up in crib, feeder seat, transfer to parent arms