wyer
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TBI
Jan 12, 2006 7:52:28 GMT 7
Post by wyer on Jan 12, 2006 7:52:28 GMT 7
I have been working off and on with a TBI patient in a Long Term Care setting for the last year. This patient slipped through the cracks because of incorrect documentation that had him listed as a brain stem vegetable.
My team and I have over the past year discovered an amazing person inside this wrecked body and we want to help him. However in the nursing home setting and with our limited equipment/time, we cannot really do him justice. He recently got his trache out , (he is post injury X 6 years) and is starting to verbalize.
His mother is working very hard to get him into an intensive rehab program. In the meantime we want to maximize the good we can do for him with our limitations.
Has anyone worked with TBI before and can you give me input as to what is most crucial in preparing him for a more appropriate rehab setting?
Do not be concerned about HIPPA, I have a signed release from his family. I could use his name and his picture here if I wanted, but I choose to not do that. But his mother would give permission for anything she thought might help him.
What of hyperbaric pressure treatments. Any views on weather or not these could be effective at this late stage in the game?
Oh , I am a PTA in Texas and a rehab program manager.
-Ruthie aka wyer
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