Implementation and Analysis of a Free Water Protocol in Acute Trauma and Stroke Patients

Helen Kenedi1, JoBeth Campbell-Vance2, Jenny Reynolds2

  • 1Helen Kenedi is a clinical faculty member in the Communication Disorders program, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas; JoBeth Campbell-Vance is a board certified specialist in swallowing and swallowing disorders at Baylor Scott & White Institute of Rehabilitation, Hospital Division, Dallas, Texas; Jenny Reynolds is an advanced clinical specialist in the neonatal intensive care unit at Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Michael Foreman is the chief of the Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery, the medical director of the Trauma and Neuro-trauma Intensive Care Unit, the codirector of the Car-diothoracic and Transplant Intensive Care Unit, and the codirector of critical care services at Baylor University Medical Center; Christine Dollaghan is a professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders program at the University of Texas at Dallas; Dion Graybeal specializes in neurology and is the medical director of stroke at Baylor University Medical Center; Anne Marie Warren is a licensed psychologist and associate investigator of trauma research at the level I trauma center at Baylor University Medical Center; Monica Bennett is a biostatistician at Baylor Scott & White Health, Dallas, Texas. kenedi@utdallas.edu.

Critical Care Nurse
|June 3, 2019
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