Help Support Our Frontline Physiotherapists
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HELP SUPPORT OUR FRONTLINE PHYSIOTHERAPISTS!
It is August 2020. You arrive at the hospital and make your way to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). You review your case load. Your patients today are 30 to 80 years of age and have severe illness from COVID-19. It is unclear whether they will survive.
Your job is to help your patients breathe and breathe in a way that improves their oxygen levels. This may involve positioning, using a device with high flow oxygen or other breathing techniques. For those that show signs of recovery, you may start early rehabilitation (when it is safe to do so) to maintain muscle strength and function.
To minimise your risk of infection, you wear full personal protective gear and where possible you treat your patients in negative pressure rooms and hoods.
You are a specialist ICU physiotherapist in the midst of the 2020 Corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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As a physiotherapist who has colleagues working on the frontline in ICU, I am acutely aware of the incredible contribution that our specialist physiotherapists are making in these challenging circumstances.
While most of us feel powerless to help our health workers, there are things we can do.
This initiative aims to show community support for our specialist ICU physiotherapists, thank them for their expertise, dedication and courage in these challenging times, and assist with physiotherapy COVID-19 research.
PLEASE JOIN US WITH THESE TWO SIMPLE STEPS:
1. Email in a photo to be included on Tribute Walls. The Tribute Walls will consist of a photo mosaic with an overlay of the Frontline Heroes mural and will be given to our Melbourne ICU physiotherapy teams.
REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/KrX99h8hZPknCuZm8
2. DONATE THE COST OF A COFFEE
Your support is needed to fund:
(i) Tribute Walls that will be given to our Melbourne ICU physiotherapy teams.
(ii) research that is investigating the impact of physiotherapy in COVID-19 patients and the physiotherapy resources needed in a pandemic.
This is a not-for-profit event and funds will go directly to this cause.
Thank you for your involvement with this initiative - we sincerely appreciate your support and we look forward to receiving your photo and virtual cup of coffee!
It is August 2020. You arrive at the hospital and make your way to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). You review your case load. Your patients today are 30 to 80 years of age and have severe illness from COVID-19. It is unclear whether they will survive.
Your job is to help your patients breathe and breathe in a way that improves their oxygen levels. This may involve positioning, using a device with high flow oxygen or other breathing techniques. For those that show signs of recovery, you may start early rehabilitation (when it is safe to do so) to maintain muscle strength and function.
To minimise your risk of infection, you wear full personal protective gear and where possible you treat your patients in negative pressure rooms and hoods.
You are a specialist ICU physiotherapist in the midst of the 2020 Corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic.
_________________________________
As a physiotherapist who has colleagues working on the frontline in ICU, I am acutely aware of the incredible contribution that our specialist physiotherapists are making in these challenging circumstances.
While most of us feel powerless to help our health workers, there are things we can do.
This initiative aims to show community support for our specialist ICU physiotherapists, thank them for their expertise, dedication and courage in these challenging times, and assist with physiotherapy COVID-19 research.
PLEASE JOIN US WITH THESE TWO SIMPLE STEPS:
1. Email in a photo to be included on Tribute Walls. The Tribute Walls will consist of a photo mosaic with an overlay of the Frontline Heroes mural and will be given to our Melbourne ICU physiotherapy teams.
REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/KrX99h8hZPknCuZm8
2. DONATE THE COST OF A COFFEE
Your support is needed to fund:
(i) Tribute Walls that will be given to our Melbourne ICU physiotherapy teams.
(ii) research that is investigating the impact of physiotherapy in COVID-19 patients and the physiotherapy resources needed in a pandemic.
This is a not-for-profit event and funds will go directly to this cause.
Thank you for your involvement with this initiative - we sincerely appreciate your support and we look forward to receiving your photo and virtual cup of coffee!
Organizer
Donna Urquhart
Organizer
