An Investigation into the Role of Physical Therapists in Saudi Intensive Care Units

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Published: Aug 31, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29070/v1676y27
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Physical therapists, Saudi Arabia, intensive care units, healthcare delivery, rehabilitation interventions, collaborative decision-making

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Wafa Theyab Alokayli

Senior Physiotherapist, Prince Sultan Military Medical City

Sara Marzouk Alkhaldi

Physiotherapist, Prince Sultan Military Medical Hospital

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This study explores the crucial features of physical therapists in Saudi Arabian intensive care devices (ICUs) and looks at how they affect patient effects, healthcare excellence, and machine overall performance as a whole. The study investigates how bodily therapists help the multidisciplinary technique in extensive care gadgets (ICUs) utilizing addressing the specific problems supplied by severely sick sufferers. It does this by doing a radical assessment of the frame of current literature, interviewing healthcare professionals, and making on-site observations. The summary emphasizes these specialists' wide variety of responsibilities, which include respiratory care, early mobilization, and rehabilitation interventions. Additionally, the study explores how bodily therapists might be covered within the collaborative choice-making process, highlighting their contribution to multiplied patient capability, decreased complications, and stepped-forward universal care satisfaction. Findings from this research provide valuable insights for healthcare policymakers, directors, and practitioners in search of to optimize the position of physical therapists in Saudi Arabian ICUs, in the long run fostering improved affected person consequences and healthcare machine efficacy.

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Vol. 19 No. 1 (2024): International Journal of Physical Education and Sports Sciences (IJOPESS)

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