Physical Therapy in Acute Care: A Clinician's Guide
Safe and effective management of the patient is a top priority for every rehabilitation clinician in the acute care setting. Physical Therapy in Acute Care: A Clinician's Guide is a user-friendly, research-based text that enables the clinician to manage acute care patients successfully. Physical Therapy in Acute Care provides clinicians with an understanding of the basic physiological mechanism underlying normal function of all major organ systems, contrasted with the pathophysiology of...
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Safe and effective management is a top priority for every physical therapy student or clinician involved with patients in the acute care setting. Physical Therapy in Acute Care: A Clinician’s Guide is a user-friendly, pocket-sized, evidence-based text that guides and reinforces successful acute care patient management. Physical Therapy in Acute Care provides clinicians with an understanding of the basic physiological mechanisms underlying normal function of all major organ systems, contrasted with the pathophysiology of the disease and disorders that physical therapists will most often encounter in an acute care environment. Inside the pages of Physical Therapy in Acute Care, Daniel Malone and Kathy Lee Bishop-Lindsay provide a comprehensive review of acute physical therapy best practice. This text builds upon fundamental knowledge by addressing important components of patient examination, discussing relevant medical tests, and listing diseases and diagnoses alphabetically with brief medical management. Some Chapter Topics Include: • Cardiovascular, pulmonary, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and neurological diseases and disorders • The immune system and infectious disease • Oncology rehabilitation • Wound care • Transplantation Each chapter highlights important physical therapy concerns, examination findings, and rehabilitation interventions. In addition, Physical Therapy in Acute Care includes numerous tables, figures, review questions, and case studies that highlight the physical therapy patient care model as outlined in the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice.Exciting Features: • An in-depth description of laboratory tests and procedures incorporating the physiologic significance of abnormal findings • Pharmacologic information for each organ system chapter including side effects of common medical interventions • A chapter on deconditioning and bed rest effects in the acute care environment • A discharge recommendation decision tree Whether you are a student of physical therapy, a physical therapist entering the acute care environment, or an experienced acute care physical therapist, Physical Therapy in Acute Care is the only resource for successful patient management you will need by your side.
Ch. 1Acute care physical therapy examination and discharge planning1Ch. 2Clinical laboratory values and diagnostic testing31Ch. 3Physiologic monitors and patient support equipment67Ch. 4Bed rest, deconditioning, and hospital-acquired neuromuscular disorders93Ch. 5The immune system and infectious diseases and disorders111Ch. 6Cardiovascular diseases and disorders139Ch. 7Pulmonary diseases and disorders211Ch. 8Musculoskeletal/orthopedic diseases and disorders275Ch. 9Neurologic and neurosurgical diseases and disorders317Ch. 10Endocrine diseases and disorders385Ch. 11Gastrointestinal diseases and disorders425Ch. 12Genitourinary diseases and disorders477Ch. 13Oncological diseases and disorders503Ch. 14Transplantation545Ch. 15Integumentary diseases and disorders/wound management585AppExample of intensive care unit or acute care competency check-off sheet
\ From the Publisher“The chapter on clinical lab values will always be a useful reference. . . I am a clinician with more than 20 years of experience, and I know I will look at this chapter again and again, depending on which type of patient I may be called on to treat at the level 1 acute-care hospital where I practice. . . I would recommend this textbook to any acute-care physical therapist, whether an experienced clinician or new grad.” — Mary Casey, ADVANCE for Physical Therapists & PT Assistants “Malone and Lindsay have made a major contribution to the profession of physical therapy in the fifteen chapters and 679 pages of this new book. With nine contributors, the editors highlight and emphasize what a PT or PTA should know in working with the acute patient care. . . On the back cover, the publisher states, ‘Whether you are a student of physical therapy, a physical therapist entering the acute care environment, or an experienced acute care physical therapist, Physical Therapy in Acute Care is the only resource for successful patient management you will need by your side.’ Those words should go far in your overcoming any concern of working in an acute care program. The text is well-supported with black line drawings and extensive references at the end of each chapter. There also are 17 pages of vital abbreviations.” — Jay Schleichkorn, PhD, PT, Dr. Jay’s E-Book Reports “My first paid job as a licensed physical therapist...I was assigned to the acute care team Physical Therapy in Acute Care is the resource I wish I had back then! Physical Therapy in Acute Care will be the resource to which I will turn to refresh and update my knowledge of acute care practice. Physical Therapy in Acute Care represents many textbooks combined into one resource. Daniel Malone and Kathy Lee Bishop Lindsay clearly have invested an enormous amount of time, energy, and brain power to make this book possible and their efforts paid off. Bravo!” — From the Foreword by Dianne V. Jewell, PT, PhD, CCS, FAACVPR\ \
