Palliative Care And PT: Mutually Exclusive Or Best Practice?

Bridge the Gap 2024: If you are interested in submitting a poster for presentation or being a guest speaker, contact our co-host Leo Arguelles at arguellesdpt@gmail.com”

Guest Quotes:

2:24 “Even experienced clinicians also have a lot of difficulty prioritizing a lot of these patients and, and really, at least for acute care, palliative care, the nice thing is about palliative rehabilitation is one, it really helps the patient.

So it’s the right thing to do to get them where they need to be.”

4:29 “The confusing thing in acute care is the patient can be exactly the same as they were yesterday and they get quote unquote discharged from the hospital and automatically readmitted under a hospice benefit…but they elected to go on hospice, and then basically their opportunity to work with therapy was arbitrarily discontinued.”

13:17 “So palliative care really is patient centered care and goal oriented care, which we really should be doing for everyone”

Rapid Responses:

Shoes you would recommend to wear on acute care?

“Something cheap so you don’t have to scoop poop out of them.”

You know you work in acute care when:

“When you know what it means when someone has different scrub colors on the top and the bottom. Everyone knows the secret signal of they’re wearing purple top and they’ve got green bottoms.”

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Leo Arguelles (LEE-O R-GWELL-IS)

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Ashley Poole

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