1. Jennifer Clark

2. What is acute care?
 Acute care is providing emergency
services and general Medical and
surgical treatment for acute
disorders rather than long-term
residential care for chronic illness.

3. How many work in that
demographic?
 About 8.6% of Physical
Therapist Assistants
nationally work in acute
care hospital settings

4. Salary
 The median income for a
full-time physical
therapist assistant
working in acute care
hospital setting is
$49,000 per year.
 That income is about in
the middle of the other
settings that physical
therapist assistants can
work at.

5. Continuing Education Examples
 A Comprehensive Course on Cardiovascular and
Pulmonary Practice in the Management of Patients in
the Acute Care Setting: A Case-Based Approach using
Human Simulation
 How to Manage - and Decrease - Inappropriate PT and
OT Referrals in Acute Care
 Acute Care in Pediatrics

6. Continuing Education Examples
 Treatment Strategies in the Acute Care of Stroke
Survivors
 Pulmonary Rehab in Acute Care Physical Therapy: The
Basics
 Providing Acute Level Care in all Practice Settings:
Management of the Medically Complex Patient

7. Common Diagnosis
 The top 3 conditions that will typically be seen in acute
care would include:
 Joint Replacements
 Knee
 Hip
 Cardiac Disorders
 Stroke

8. Stroke Rehabilitation in Acute Care
 Begins after patient has been stabilized, which is
normally 24 to 48 hours after the stroke
 The first couple steps would involve promoting
independent movement since a lot of the patients are
paralyzed or weakened.
 They do either passive range-of-motion or active
range-of-motion to help the impaired limbs
 They will progress from sitting up and moving
between the bed and chair to standing, bearing own
weight, and walking

9. Acute Care Section: APTA
 The acute section is made up of more than 2000 PT’s,
PTA’s, and PT aids.
 Their mission is to serve PT’s and PTA’s by promoting
and recognizing excellence in acute care. Therefore, it
should increase the physical health and functional
abilities of patients that have acute care needs.

10. Works Cited
 http://medicalimages.allrefer.com/large/partial-knee-
replacement-series-5.jpg
 www.apta.org
 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/acute+care
 http://www.okmedicalboard.org/download/PTApprovedC
E.pdf
 http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/stroke/poststrokereha
b.htm
 http://www.acutept.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=2
 http://physicaltherapycenter.net/wp-
content/uploads/2010/09/apta-logo.jpg