Category:Acute Care
Introduction[edit | edit source]
Acute care is an area of practice dedicated to the provision of physiotherapy services in hospitals. In this setting, individuals are admitted to a hospital for short-term care due to illness, injury, surgery or other trauma. The goal of care is to promote recovery and, once medically stable, ensure safe discharge from a physical rehabilitation standpoint.
The articles within this category apply to one or more of the following domains related to acute care practice:
- Hospital structure and services
- Interprofessional collaboration
- Chart view
- Patient safety
- Medical diagnoses and treatments
- Tests and imaging
- Lines and equipment
- Physiotherapy assessment, treatment & discharge planning
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
C
- Critical Care (26 P)
Pages in category "Acute Care"
The following 124 pages are in this category, out of 124 total.
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C
- Canes
- Cardiac Arrest
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Cardioversion
- Case Study: Guillain-Barre Syndrome (Sub-Acute)
- Cauda Equina Syndrome
- Cellulitis
- Cervical Collar
- Cervical Myelopathy
- Chest Drains
- Chest X-Rays
- Clavicular Fracture
- Clinical Records
- Compartment Syndrome
- Compartment Syndrome of the Foot
- Compartment Syndrome of the Lower Leg
- Concussion Prevention Strategies
- COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
- Critical Illness Polyneuropathy (CIP)
- Crutches
- CT Scans
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P
- Pain Medications
- Patellar dislocation
- Patellar Fractures
- Pelvic Fractures
- Peripheral Edema
- Perme Intensive Care Unit Mobility Score
- Physical Activity in Acute Care
- Physiotherapists Role in ICU
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
- Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Pulmonary Function Test
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Pulse rate
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S
- SAFEMOB
- Sedation in Critically-Ill Patients
- Sepsis
- Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score
- Soft Tissue Injuries
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Sternal Precautions
- Stroke
- Stroke Medical Management
- Suctioning
- Supracondylar Humeral Fracture
- Surgery and General Anaesthetic
- Surgical and Post‐Operative Management of Cervical Spine Stenosis
- Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome