TGH/ MSH: Medical Grand Rounds: Wake Up, Get up, and Get Out Early: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the ICU

Wednesday, March 3, 2010
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Main Auditorium, 2 West Wing, Room #401

Videoconferenced to:
Toronto General Hospital – Eaton Wing Ground Floor, Room #025/026

Mount Sinai Hospital – Auditorium, 18th Floor

 “Wake Up, Get up, and Get Out Early: 
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the ICU”

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. To review the epidemiology, risk factors, and pathophysiology of ICU-acquired weakness, and its association with long-term outcomes in survivors of critical illness
2. To review the rationale and evidence behind the use of physical medicine and rehabilitation in preventing/mitigating ICU-acquired weakness, and its effect on patient outcomes
3. To review the results of a multifaceted quality improvement project designed to enhance the provision of early physical medicine an rehabilitation in patients with acute respiratory failure

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“This event is an accredited group learning activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada”