What Matters Most: Aligning Critical Care Treatments with Older Adults' Health Outcome Goals
Speaker: Katie Drago, MD (geriatrician)
This talk will describe the philosophy of goal-concordant care in those with critical illness. It will then review strategies for eliciting patient-identified goals and discuss how to align clinical care with these goals.
Medications: Aligning Medication with What Matters Most, Mentation, and Mobility
Speaker: Joanna Stollings, PharmD (Vanderbilt University)
This talk will report strategies to identify potentially inappropriate medications in those admitted to the ICU. It will review techniques for minimizing inappropriate medications to optimize mentation and mobility.
Mentation: Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Delirium and Dementia in older adults affected by critical illness.
Speaker: Sikandar Khan, DO (University of Indiana)
This talk will review the association between delirium and dementia in those with critical illness. It will discuss optimal means by which to identify cognitive impairment and dementia in survivors of critical illness and explore potential treatments for this syndrome.
Mobility: Ensuring Older Adults Move Safely Every Day to Maintain Function and Do What Matters Most
Speaker: Heidi Engel, PT, DPT (UCSF)
Despite compelling evidence that early mobility can reduce disability and improve physical function among survivors, implementation of this practice remains incomplete. This talk, given by leaders in the field of early mobility, will describe strategies for culture change needed to effectively implement early mobility in the ICU.