{"id":16547,"date":"2020-07-29T09:33:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16547"},"modified":"2020-07-29T09:33:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:33:59","slug":"va-icu-treatment-improves-patient-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16547","title":{"rendered":"VA ICU treatment improves patient outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Navy Veteran Ralph Gervasio Jr. was admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU) at\u00a0Nashville VA Medical Center\u00a0in 2017 for acute respiratory failure, he didn\u2019t know that his road to recovery would be one of the most difficult times in his life.<\/p>\n<p>Well into his 60s, the Vietnam War Veteran had maintained a life-long strength and fitness regimen. But after three weeks in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Gervasio faced the effects of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can attest to the physical aspect of PICS. I had lost nearly 30 pounds and much of my muscle mass. As a result, I couldn\u2019t curl a 30-pound weight even once.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like Gervasio, many critically ill patients experience stressful situations that may cause them to develop problems related to their time in the ICU. It\u2019s a struggle that Kelly Drumright, a clinical nurse leader at the Nashville VA Medical Center, is working to fix.\u00a0 Continue reading blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.va.gov\/VAntage\/77149\/va-icu-treatment-improves-patient-outcomes\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16129\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point--300x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point--300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point-.png 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Navy Veteran Ralph Gervasio Jr. was admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU) at\u00a0Nashville VA Medical Center\u00a0in 2017 for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16548,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547\/revisions\/16548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}