Teamwork in Action: A Case Study on Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Optimize Rehabilitation Potential for a Complex Patient in Neurologic Intensive Care Unit

Learning Objectives:

• Describe strategies for effective interdisciplinary collaboration between PT and SLP in the ICU setting to facilitate communication and mobility during early stages of recovery.
• Identify discipline-centered techniques to address respiratory, postural, and cognitive impairment in separate PT/SLP sessions to address discipline-specific impairment as the patient progressed
• Explain the evolving role of the physiatrist in guiding neurorehabilitation through pharmacologic interventions, disposition planning, and integration of therapies across ICU care phases,