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Benefits of Safe Early Mobility through Intermittent Verticalization Therapy in Patients with Physical Frailty from End Organ Failure Awaiting Transplant


Arjo is welcoming you to join Jenna Hightower and the Benefits of Safe Early Mobility through Intermittent Verticalization Therapy in Patients with Physical Frailty from End Organ Failure Awaiting Transplant webinar. 

During this event we will:

  • Broadly discuss the physiologic changes with various forms of end organ failure and shock, with focus on heart, lung, and liver failure and subsequent musculoskeletal debility 

  • Discuss current literature on physical frailty and outcomes post-transplant

  • Discuss feasibility and benefits of intermittent verticalization therapy 

  • Recommended approach to improve functional outcomes with this population through intermittent verticalization therapy

  • Review Case studies

Presenter

Jenna Hightower, PT,DPT, CCS

Critical Care Physical TherapistAmerican Board of Physical Therapy Specialties (ABPTS) Board Certified Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Clinical Specialist (CCS)