The lab experience was great since with have the opportunity to work with physical Therapist students and learn from that experience how to communicate and interact with others health care workers. The patient was alert and in a spontaneous (SP) mode with a FIO2of 30%, CPAP of 5cmH2O, and pressure support of 10. Oxygen saturation of 93% while in SP mode and Sedation vacation began 30 minutes ago tell us that the patient was good for early mobility. My role as a RT was to manage the ETT tube, ventilator, and patients O2 saturation. As a group we decided that when the patient was not tolerating the treatment. We gave a breaks between exercises and I also increased the FIO2 to see if the patient could respond better to the exercise. We also coached the patient through the whole exercise to give support and comfort.
I think that even though was our first time working together as a group, our communication was really good. We came with the plan before
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I also gain a good view and knowledge of role of a physical therapist. I think they are really important for patients that need early mobility, especially patients that can do early mobility when they are in a ventilator. Physical therapist together with RTs, nurses, and doctors can help ventilate patients to have a better outcome if they work together. I was one of the person in class that it was not really convince in the idea of early mobility in ventilate patients because I thought that if we could do early mobility on these patients we could extubate them too. Now I understand that the diaphragm may not be strong enough to extubate them but we still can do early mobility which can help the patient to be extubate later. I absolutely would recommend early mobility now in ventilate