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Welcome to the mobility minute podcast. This is our first episode of season 2 and we are super excited to kick off a new season with even more content on hospital patient mobility. We have an awesome lineup of clinicians, academics, and other key stakeholders dedicated to patient outcomes.I am your host Drew Martin – but our focus today is on critical care physical therapy. Our guest Heidi Engel, PT, DPT has spent over 34 years in healthcare and has focused the last 11 years on ICU mobility. ...

Welcome to another episode of the Mobility Minute Podcast - actually the 10th and final episode of Season 1. We've had some wonderful guests throughout the first season from traveling nurses to an ergonomics expert to a patient experiencing a blood clot and subsequent pulmonary embolism. We've covered a lot. Thank you to our listeners, guests, and those who may be listening for the first time. This podcast is a place for thoughtful discussion on patient mobility and how mobility factors into ...

Today we speak with Dr, Juliessa Pavon, MD.Dr. Pavon is a researcher and associate professor at Duke University and is associated with the Durham V. A. for geriatrics. During our conversation, we get into the importance of mobility measurement, and some of Dr. Pavon’s research revolves around using accelerometer data to measure mobility in the hospital. And one of the key takeaways from our conversation really talks about objective data and the best way to use objective data in order to impro...

Today we speak with Dian Baker (Ph.D., RN, APRN-BC).Dian has been a thought leader in pneumonia prevention in the hospital, and her work has highlighted hospital-acquired pneumonia, the #1 hospital-acquired infection, as an underrepresented problem in hospitals across the country. During our conversation, we talk about the importance of mobility when it comes to preventing pneumonia in the hospital and some of the simple steps that bedside caregivers can take in order to improve outcomes.

Today we have Kevin Brueilly, PT, Ph.D.Brueilly's background in education and physical therapy clinical practice came full circle when he was diagnosed with a saddle pulmonary embolism in January of 2019. In this episode - we detail Kevin's lessons from going through this scary situation and how his focus has since shifted to bringing awareness and research around post-op recovery and mobility.