Assessment and Outcomes for COVID-19 in the Outpatient Setting
Presented by Ellen Hillegass and Angela Campbell
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COVID-19 presents a challenge in the post-acute phase of rehabilitation, due to the large numbers of individuals with new cardiovascular and pulmonary (CVP) and critical-illness-related impairments in a system not prepared to accept them. The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 has been unprecedented and unpredictable in many ways—from its infectious nature to the surprising impairments it causes. This is the second course in a three-part series that will provide: (1) an overview of COVID-19 pathophysiology, diagnostics, and medical management, along with comparisons of COVID-19 to post-intensive-care syndrome (PICS); (2) considerations for examination and outcomes assessment; and (3) presentation of representative post-acute COVID-19 patient cases across disease severity, with application of interventions. Evidence from other countries will be presented, but due to the lack of published evidence, presenters will extrapolate best practices from research and practice principles with existing conditions, integrated with current case anecdotes.
This three-part course series presented by Ellen Hilligass and Angela Campbell includes
Meet your instructors
Ellen Hillegass
Dr. Ellen Hillegass is a physical therapist with APTA board certification in the cardiovascular and pulmonary clinical specialty. She is currently a professor on the core faculty at South College Knoxville and South College Atlanta and is an adjunct professor at Mercer University in Atlanta in the department of physical…
Angela Campbell
Dr. Campbell is the current president of the Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Section of the American Physical Therapy Association and a professor of physical therapy at Springfield College. She received her DPT from Creighton University in 1996, became an ABPTS Board-Certified Cardiovascular & Pulmonary Clinical Specialist (CCS)…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Assessment and Outcomes Considerations in COVID-19 for the Outpatient Setting
Clinicians will be presented with suggested patient history elements based on the common impairments found in patients post COVID-19. These include hospitalization elements such as number of ICU days, cardiac risk assessment using standardized risk estimators, and objective markers for previous level of function. Screening elements to capture unique COVID-19 complications will be discussed. Specific outcome measures, including exercise capacity, will be recommended, and psychometric properties will be presented (i.e., interrater reliability and minimal detectable change).
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Clinical Concepts for COVID-19: Pathophysiology and Related Impairments
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