Intensive Care at Home

https://intensivecareathome.com/what-can-intensive-care-at-home-offer-my-57-year-old-mom-with-tracheostomy/ WHAT CAN INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME OFFER MY 57-YEAR OLD MOM WITH TRACHEOSTOMY? Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ICUhotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare In today’s blog post, I want to answer a question from one of our clients and the question today is What Can Intensive Care at Home Offer my 57-year old Mom with Tracheostomy? Hi Patrik, My mom has been in intensive care now for two weeks and she has gone into ICU with COVID pneumonia. And she’s on high oxygen levels and on high PEEP. And we are at day 14 today. The palliative care doctor wants a decision by myself and my family within the next few days, whether we should be ending her life because she’s saying, “Well, she won’t have any quality of life even if she will survive it and she will be disabled. And she will need help for the rest of her life if she does survive this ICU stay.” Or the other option they’re giving us if we want to consent to tracheostomy instead, once her FIO2 and PEEP has come down eventually, but they’re not sure whether that can be achieved or not. The palliative care doctor had not inquired with ICU doctor to inquire if the tracheostomy would be temporary, and also if she needs dialysis in the long term, because at the moment she’s on dialysis or she has been on dialysis for the last few days. Thank you very much for the services that you offer. We are wondering that if she has a tracheostomy, what Intensive Care at Home could offer for her. We are in Sydney, Australia. My mom is only 57. What are our options? From Drew Hi Drew, Thank you so much for your question. I’m very sorry to hear about your mom’s situation. Now, at such a young age at 57 years of age, the palliative care doctor should not be talking about palliative care, but to rather consult with the intensive care team, what to do next in order to save your mom’s life. She may not have any quality of life going forward, or may not have any perceived quality of life going forward, but nobody knows and nobody has a crystal ball. And ICUs and palliative care are very poor at predicting what life looks like outside of intensive care once people survive. Furthermore, ICUs especially at the moment are still under high pressure, i.e. if they end your mom’s life, they can empty in bed that they have very high demand for. So you should be asking all the right questions in order to make the right decision for your mom. Once she has a tracheostomy, then you can absolutely look at home care if she can’t come off the ventilator, especially if she’s 57, she will qualify for the NDIS. And the NDIS will fund home care for ventilation and tracheostomy assuming your mom can’t come off the ventilator and tracheostomy in hospital for whatever reason. So the options are definitely there. You should definitely buy some time there. Ask them to continue treatment, clear the pneumonia, hopefully, and then once the pneumonia is cleared and her FIO2 and PEEP has come down, then look at the tracheostomy. Hopefully she can take the next steps and then if she can’t come off the ventilator in ICU, can’t come off the tracheostomy, then you should absolutely look at Intensive Care at Home. And you’re doing the ICU a favor there as well by helping them to empty their ICU bed. But now when it comes to the NDIS, you will need to obviously apply there to become a participant for your mom, but we can help you with that. You should reach out to us so we can help you with the next steps. We also provide specialist support coordination under the NDIS, that can help you with the funding. So please contact us at your earliest convenience. Just go to our website, intensivecareathome.com and call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website, or send us an email to info@intensivecareathome.com... Continue reading at: https://intensivecareathome.com/what-can-intensive-care-at-home-offer-my-57-year-old-mom-with-tracheostomy/

https://intensivecareathome.com/addressing-icu-nurses/ Addressing ICU Nurses in Melbourne! Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ICUhotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare In today’s blog post, it is directed at intensive care nurses, specifically in the Melbourne Metropolitan area, but also country Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. Addressing ICU Nurses in Melbourne Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com with another quick video blog. Now today’s question is about when is it time to leave ICU nursing and go into the community? Now, this video blog today is different to what we normally do. Normally, I answer questions for families in intensive care, but this video today is directed at intensive care nurses, specifically in the Melbourne Metropolitan area, but also country Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. So when is it time to leave intensive care nursing and go into the community? Well, the time is now because as you would’ve all seen Intensive Care at Home is expanding. It’s a new form of intensive care nursing. It’s a very exciting branch of intensive care nursing far away from the hustle and bustle of intensive care. And if you’re ready for a change, you should absolutely look at Intensive Care at Home as a new career opportunity. As we all know in intensive care nursing in the last two years have been horrible in ICUs and work conditions for intensive care nurses have deteriorated. Nurse to patient ratios have deteriorated despite the unions rhetoric, at the end of the day, the unions did nothing to stop that deterioration. And it’s just shocking to see. Now on the contrary, look at Intensive Care at Home, we guarantee a one-to-one nurse to patient ratio because we bring the intensive care into the home. You can’t double up patients in Intensive Care at Home. You can’t just send ward nurse to someone at home. We guarantee the one-on-one nurse to patient ratio with Intensive Care at Home because that’s what our clients need and want. And there’s also most of the time, a support worker there to support you. So now is the time to look at community nursing with Intensive Care at Home. If you are an intensive care nurse with a minimum of two years ICU experience and ideally a post-graduate critical care qualification, we have exciting opportunities. We’re also looking for a nurse manager. We’re looking for a clinical liaison nurse, and now it’s really the time to look for a career change in 2022. Leave intensive care and, look at working conditions with Intensive Care at Home that are more stable, more sustainable and not have working conditions deteriorate such as it happened in ICU in the last two years. So go and check out our career section at intensivecareathome.com or simply send me an email to info@intensivecareathome.com. Or you can also call me on 0410942230. This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com and I’ll talk to you in a few days. Take care... Continue reading at: https://intensivecareathome.com/addressing-icu-nurses/

https://intensivecareathome.com/my-52-year-old-brother-is-stuck-in-the-icu-the-hospital-does-not-want-to-help-anymore-with-weaning-him-off-the-ventilator-can-you-help-us-in-taking-him-home/ MY 52-YR OLD BROTHER'S STUCK IN ICU& ICU IS NO HELP WEANING HIM OFF VENTILATION. CAN HE GO HOME? Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ICUhotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare In today’s blog post, I want to answer a question from one of our clients and the question today is My 52-year old Brother is Stuck in the ICU & the Hospital Does Not Want to Help Anymore with Weaning Him Off the Ventilator. Can You Help Us in Taking Him Home? Hi Patrik, My brother is 52 years of age, the only medical problem he had was chronic heart failure and mild COPD. Five months ago, he had sepsis and the ICU doctors didn’t want to treat him. There was a delay in providing proper care and that cause him to have a respiratory infection and a crash and he ended up on a ventilator eventually with the tracheostomy. Now he’s on the ventilator with the tracheostomy in a spontaneous breathing mode, but he can’t be weaned off the ventilator at all. He might have a few minutes off the ventilator, but he’s really struggling to keep it off for longer periods of time. Therefore, he’s stuck in ICU at the moment and the hospital doesn’t want to help him anymore with weaning him off the ventilator and they want to stop treatment. Given that he’s only 52, we want to take him home. Instead, our goal is to remove the tracheostomy and getting him off the ventilator. Can you help us in taking him home? Thank you so much. From Marin. Hi Marin, Well, Marin, this is quite a common problem that we see across the board. Unfortunately, ICUs don’t want to continue treating. They need the ICU bed, but rather than looking at taking patients home with Intensive Care at Home, they want to stop treating. And unfortunately that’s the first step to end of life. And that’s where we can help you to take your brother home and continue treatment there. Now, I wouldn’t know, at this particular point in time, whether he’s able to come off the ventilator or not, you haven’t shared enough information, but you know, in any case, if he’s been in ICU for five months now, it’s time for him to go home. He is probably depressed. He’s probably in a COVID infested intensive care unit. He’s depressed. He’s got no quality of life and it’s time for him to go home and set it up properly at home. So the next step really is to give me a call and we can look into your situation. You are saying that you are in Sydney, Australia. You would be aware that at the age of 52, your brother would qualify for the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme). And I think we should have a chat about the funding about Specialist Support Coordination, which we can help you with. I should say Specialist NDIS Support Coordination, where we can help you with. And then set up the funding, set up the team, set up equipment, talk to the ICU, making sure you get the right support at home for your brother, improving his quality of life. Making sure he’s out of an ICU where the ICU is full of COVID. And at home, there is no COVID, it’s a much safer environment, less infection risk, more quality of life. And you as a family, don’t have to go into ICU all the time. And again, you’ll be much safer off with not having COVID. So I hope that helps. Let me know if there’s anything else you need, but I think the next step is for us to talk to you, talk to the ICU and take the next steps from there. Thank you so much... Continue reading at: https://intensivecareathome.com/my-52-year-old-brother-is-stuck-in-the-icu-the-hospital-does-not-want-to-help-anymore-with-weaning-him-off-the-ventilator-can-you-help-us-in-taking-him-home/

https://intensivecareathome.com/what-is-it-like-to-work-for-intensive-care-at-home-for-intensive-care-nurses-and-pediatric-intensive-care-nurses/ WHAT IS IT LIKE TO WORK FOR INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME FOR ICU NURSES AND PEDIATRIC ICU NURSES? Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ICUhotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare Now in today’s blog post, I want to continue where I finished off last week. Last week’s blog post, I talked about that we are hiring Intensive Care nurses and Pediatric Intensive Care nurses here at Intensive Care at Home. And today, I want to talk about What Is It Like to Work for Intensive Care at Home for Intensive Care Nurses and Pediatric Intensive Care Nurses? So, I want to focus on our intensive care nurses and pediatric intensive care nurses that come to us and because they want to know, what is it like to work for Intensive Care at Home? Is it similar to working in ICU? They have all these questions piling up and I thought I’ll make a quick video about it, so hopefully to give you an insight, what is it like to work for us. So, it’s probably fairly different compared to what you’re used to in intensive care. And the reason for that is simply, that a home care environment is very different. Yes, we do need your ICU and pediatric ICU nursing skills. No question about that. Most of our clients are at home on a ventilator with a tracheostomy after all. And as we all know, only intensive care nurses with a minimum of two years ICU experience can look after those patients safely, especially in a home care environment where there are fewer resources around and fewer staff around compared to an ICU setting. But everything else is actually very different because you are in a family environment. You are in an environment that is highly, highly sensitive because obviously our clients and their families have high expectations. They want to make sure that you are the right fit for their home environment. They will test you quite frankly. They want to see whether you are the right fit, not only clinically, but also on a social and family level. Are you fitting in with the family dynamics and so forth? Those are really important points. One thing that I underestimated for a long time is really, that it’s quite a big deal for the families having somebody new coming into their home. As much as the families need us, and they need you and your skills, the next biggest question for them is, are you the right fit for them and for their family environment? So, that is one of the major differences compared to ICU, because, in ICU you get allocated to a particular patient and then you do your shift and then when you’re back the next day, you might not even see that patient again. Whereas in our environment, it’s all about repetition, it’s all about familiarity. Families want to know that if you sign up with us and if you are successful with us, that you are committed to the care you are giving to a particular client. They want to build a relationship with you. Most of our clients that we worked with, we have worked with for many years now, and we certainly have built strong relationships with them. That’s a result of having strong relationships between the families and the nurses that are working with those clients. But just like with anything else, we also want to give you variety, which means, you could work with more than one client. Some of it depends on location of course. How far away are you from a particular client? That’s all coming into play... Continue reading at: https://intensivecareathome.com/what-is-it-like-to-work-for-intensive-care-at-home-for-intensive-care-nurses-and-pediatric-intensive-care-nurses/

https://intensivecareathome.com/does-intensive-care-at-home-take-intubated-patients/#:~:text=If%20they%20can't%20wean,reasons%20that%20I%20just%20mentioned. DOES INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME TAKE INTUBATED PATIENTS? Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ICUhotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare In today’s blog post, I want to answer a question from one of our clients and the question today is “Does Intensive Care at Home Take Intubated Patients?” So this is a question we get quite frequently, whether at Intensive Care at Home, we take intubated patients, which means are we taking patients on a breathing tube or an endotracheal tube home? The short version to that question is no. However, there is one exception to that rule. Let me just explain to you why we don’t take intubated patients. An intubated patient belongs into intensive care at this particular point in time. They are too critically ill and also it’s not considered a stable airway, a breathing tube or an endotracheal tube. If the breathing tube or an endotracheal comes out, for whatever reason it takes reintubation by a doctor. Whereas if a tracheostomy falls out at home, it can be reinserted by one of our critical care nurses. Now that is the shorter version to that question. There’s other reasons as well, why we don’t take intubated patients. Often intubated patients are on multiple doses of inotropes or vasopressors. They’re often in an induced coma and also intubation should be considered as a short term measure in ICU. It should not be a long term measure or long term treatment in ICU. Whereas if someone has a tracheostomy, it is often considered long term and many patients have a tracheostomy and ventilation long term, and that’s absolutely why they’re the right fit for us for Intensive Care at Home if they can’t be weaned off the ventilator. For someone on a breathing tube or an endotracheal tube, their goal should be to be weaned off the ventilator full stop. If they can’t wean off the ventilator and they need a tracheostomy, and then again, they can’t be weaned off the ventilator for whatever reason. Yes. Then they’re absolutely a candidate for Intensive Care at Home, but intubated patients, it’s just they belong into ICU for the reasons that I just mentioned. Now, there is one exception to that rule and we have done that on a couple of occasions, we do take intubated patients home for what’s considered a one-way extubation and I have made blog posts about that about one-way extubations at home. So for example, if a patient in ICU is on a breathing tube or an endotracheal tube and is considered to be a one-way extubation for palliative care, we have done that at home where we take a patient home and do remove the breathing tube at home so they can have end of life care at home. We have done that. And if your loved one is in that situation, you should definitely contact us and consider it as an option. Thank you so much for tuning into this week’s blog. If you have any questions, please reach out to us. Go to intensivecareathome.com, call us on one of the numbers on the top of the website, or send us an email to info@ntensivecareathome.com, that’s info@intensivecareathome.com. Thank you. Continue reading at: https://intensivecareathome.com/does-intensive-care-at-home-take-intubated-patients/#:~:text=If%20they%20can't%20wean,reasons%20that%20I%20just%20mentioned.

https://intensivecareathome.com/quick-tip-for-families-in-intensive-care-can-my-wife-be-weaned-off-the-tracheostomy-in-icu/ Quick Tip for Families in Intensive Care: Can My Wife be Weaned Off the Tracheostomy in ICU? Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ICUhotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare In today’s blog post, I want to answer a question from one of our clients and the question today is Quick Tip for Families in Intensive Care: Can my Wife be Weaned off the Tracheostomy in ICU? Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from Intensive Care at Home with another quick tip for families in intensive care and for families outside of intensive care. It’s a tip for anyone that’s dealing with a ventilator and a tracheostomy, and is in need of intensive care or Intensive Care at Home. So I’ve got a question today from Peter who asks, “Is it possible for my wife to be weaned off the tracheostomy in ICU?” Now, what a great question to ask Peter. And I guess preceding that question is really before your wife can be weaned off the tracheostomy, she needs to be weaned off the ventilator. Now, either can be done in ICU, but neither might be able to be done in ICU. So it really depends on your wife’s situation. It’s sort of a very relevant question, but to a degree, it’s also a very broad question because it really depends on, why your wife had a tracheostomy? Why she had a ventilator? What’s stopping her from coming off the tracheostomy at the moment? Can she not swallow? Is she at risk of aspiration? Did she have a stroke? It really depends on your wife’s unique situation. So there are a number of questions that need to be answered. But even if she can’t be weaned off the ventilator, you should be looking at Intensive Care at Home where we can help you take your wife home with a tracheostomy and she can be weaned off the tracheostomy at home. And if she can’t be weaned off the tracheostomy in ICU or at home, she can have 24-hour nursing care at home, which are the recommendations from the mechanical home ventilation guidelines. Those guidelines are researched and evidence-based that anybody leaving intensive care with a ventilator and or tracheostomy needs to be looked after by an intensive care nurse with a minimum of two years’ intensive care experience at home. And then it’s actually safe. Unfortunately, we have seen clients pass away in the community with the tracheostomy/ventilator, where we were only doing night shifts and we were only funded for night shifts. And unfortunately, clients passed away during the day because families and support workers just simply couldn’t manage medical emergency. That’s how serious it is. But we can help you with all of that. And we can make sure that the funding is there for you. We are cutting the cost of an intensive care bed by about 50%. We’re providing much better quality of life for clients at home compared to an intensive care stay. And we can help you with that. If you are in Australia, you should contact us also for NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) funding. We also have our own NDIS specialist support coordinator. You should contact us at intensivecareathome.com, call us on one of the numbers on the top of the website, or simply send us an email to info@intensivecareathome.com. Like this video, comment below what questions and insights you have and what you want to see next. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for updates for families in intensive care and click the notification bell. If you want a medical record review, click on the link for medical record review. Also check out our membership for families in intensive care at intensivecaresupport.org. This is Patrik Hutzel from Intensive Care at Home, and I will talk to you in a few days. Take care. Continue reading at: https://intensivecareathome.com/quick-tip-for-families-in-intensive-care-can-my-wife-be-weaned-off-the-tracheostomy-in-icu/

https://intensivecareathome.com/can-intensive-care-at-home-be-used-for-long-term-ventilated-children-with-tracheostomy/ CAN INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME BE USED FOR LONG-TERM VENTILATED CHILDREN WITH TRACHEOSTOMY? Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review , click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ICUhotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline #icu #intensivecare #criticalcaremedicine In today’s blog post, I want to answer a question from one of our clients and the question today is Can Intensive Care at Home Be Used for Long-Term Ventilated Children with Tracheostomy? So, this is a question we get quite frequently, “Can Intensive Care at Home be used for long-term ventilated children with tracheostomy?” And the short answer is, absolutely yes. We have looked after many long-term ventilated children with tracheostomy at home. Sometimes the children that we are looking after are not having a tracheostomy and they’re just on BIPAP or CPAP ventilation. Sometimes the children that we are looking after are not ventilated at all, but they still need an intensive care nurse, 24 hours a day, because otherwise they would be at high risk of going back to ICU, they have high medical needs. So, examples for children that are not ventilated at all and don’t have a tracheostomy would be for conditions like Rett syndrome, cerebral palsy, sometimes spinal muscular atrophy, but then those kids often have a cough assist device. They have secretions that need to be suctioned. They have seizures that need to be managed for kids with neurological conditions. Now, when it comes to long-term ventilated children with tracheostomy, we can shorten the ICU stay significantly by getting those kids home with 24-hour ICU nurses. Pretty much continuing what happens in ICU, at home, and helping families and their children to go home much quicker. Nobody wants to be in ICU. Keep in mind, especially with COVID still being rampant, you want to shorten your stay in ICU as much as possible. Other children we looked after at home are children that are not ventilated but are having tracheostomy and we’ve successfully decannulated children at home. They just needed a little bit of extra time at home before they were able to be decannulated. That often happens with premature babies, and they have lung disease, and they end up with a tracheostomy temporarily. And we’ve certainly helped those kids to maximize their quality of life at home rather than in ICU before they’ve been decannulated and having the tracheostomy removed. Other children that we looked after at home include children under palliative care. We helped facilitate palliative care at home for children with tracheostomies. We’ve even done a one-way extubation at home for a toddler. Again, much better place than doing a one-way extubation in intensive care. It’s what families want, and we can certainly facilitate that with Intensive Care at Home as well. Just honing in again on long-term ventilated children with tracheostomies. Again, we’ve taken kids home from ICU with C1 spinal injury, but also after other respiratory or cardiac conditions where kids simply couldn’t be weaned off the ventilator. And we have facilitated a much better quality of life at home with 24-hour intensive care nursing instead of hospital intensive care. Now, if you look at our Home Mechanical Ventilation Guidelines that are evidence-based, it’s crystal clear that under those guidelines are the evidence and research-based with ICU nurses, 24 hours a day, and those nurses have a minimum of two years intensive care nursing experience. You can actually continue intensive care in the home, it’s safe, it’s sustainable. It frees up an ICU bed, it cuts the cost of an ICU bed by around 50%, it creates an ICU bed for other admissions into ICU, and most importantly, it creates quality of life for children and their families at home that are no longer stuck in a depressing intensive care units... Continue reading at: https://intensivecareathome.com/can-intensive-care-at-home-be-used-for-long-term-ventilated-children-with-tracheostomy/

https://intensivecareathome.com/can-your-service-at-intensivecare-at-home-continue-the-weaning-process-of-getting-my-brother-off-the-ventilator/ CAN YOUR SERVICE AT INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME CONTINUE THE WEANING PROCESS OF GETTING MY BROTHER OFF THE VENTILATOR? Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review , click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ICUhotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare Hi Patrik, My 58-year-old brother has been in intensive care for 6 months now. Initially, he went into ICU with a community acquired pneumonia. He ended up ventilated, couldn’t be weaned off the ventilator initially because he had recurring pleural effusions and he ended up with recurring chest drains. Now, that is still ongoing to this very day because he couldn’t come off the ventilator. He had a tracheostomy after a few weeks in ICU. And now he’s still struggling with the pleural effusions that prevents him from coming off the ventilator. Now, as I said, he’s been in ICU now for six months. He has time off the ventilator now for about eight hours a day. He is getting mobilized every day, sitting in a chair. He’s definitely making progress, but there still seems to be a psychological dependency for him to get off the ventilator. And he therefore is very depressed, and we just don’t think that in the ICU, he can make any further progress. Now, my question is, can your service, Intensive Care at Home, take him home, continue the weaning process at home? Can he go home with the chest drain? Those are the questions that I have. Who would be paying for it? We are in Sydney, Australia. Thank you very much. From Valerie Hi Valerie, Thank you so much for your question and it ties right in with the livestream that I did on YouTube last week, where I was talking about, “Can my mom be weaned off the ventilator and the tracheostomy at home instead of ICU?” And it ties right in with that. And I do believe your brother is the perfect candidate for going home on a ventilator with the tracheostomy because he’s been in ICU for so long, he’s now slowly making progress. Can he go home with a chest drain? Yes, I think he can go home with a chest drain. We could potentially remove the chest drain at home. We could also then do a follow up with the chest x-ray at home. There are x-rays services at home now, so I think that’s all doable. In terms of who will be paying for it. Well, the people who will be paying for it are the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme). Your brother is less than 65 years of age, and he can go home with the NDIS. The NDIS will be paying for it. We also provide specialist support coordination here at Intensive Care at Home, and we can help you arrange that with our specialist support coordinator and with the NDIS. I hope that helps. Best next step is for you to contact me on one of the numbers on the top of our website, but this is definitely right up our alley. Your brother can definitely go home with our service Intensive Care at Home. It creates a win-win situation. It frees up an ICU bed, it gives you what you and your family want, because you want him at home. It saves the hospital money, and it frees up the in demand ICU bed, that is in high demand. It’s a win-win situation overall and we go from there. Now, if you have a loved one in intensive care and you want to go home with our service Intensive Care at Home and if you want to find out how to get funding for our service and how it all works, please contact us on one of the numbers on the top of our website, or send me an email to Patrik@intensivecareathome.com. That’s Patrik, just with a K at the end. Continue reading at: https://intensivecareathome.com/can-your-service-at-intensivecare-at-home-continue-the-weaning-process-of-getting-my-brother-off-the-ventilator/

https://intensivecareathome.com/my-dad-is-on-a-ventilator-for-3-months-is-suffering-from-a-major-depression-here-in-icu-can-your-service-at-intensive-care-at-home-help-us-bring-him-home/ MY DAD IS ON A VENTILATOR FOR 3 MONTHS & IS SUFFERING FROM A MAJOR DEPRESSION HERE IN ICU. CAN YOUR SERVICE AT INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME HELP US BRING HIM HOME? Book your free 15 minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review , click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ICUhotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare Hi Patrik, I am in Melbourne Australia. I’m in the process of gathering more information regarding at home ventilator care and weaning. My father is 71 and currently in an ICU in Melbourne. He has been in the ICU and on a ventilator for about three months. He is stable and has begun the weaning process. So we are discussing the next steps for him. However, he’s only been able to wean for a couple of days, and then he went back into controlled mode and it seems to be really slow. He is at times tolerating CPAP settings, and sometimes the tracheostomy collar for small periods throughout the day, but needs to go back in a controlled mode overnight, where he gets a set rate from the ventilator. And then during the daytime, he doesn’t really last for more than an hour on CPAP and then maybe a few minutes on the tracheostomy mask. I’m interested in any and all information you can give me regarding ventilation care at home and weaning, including availability, cost, insurance coverage, and the list goes on. My dad is actually in a private ICU and has private health insurance. We believe that going home would be so beneficial for him. It would be beneficial for us as a family. He is really suffering from major depression here in ICU. And if he doesn’t get home, we think he’s losing the will to live. And he’s in a dark room in ICU, no natural daylight. And he has no natural day and night rhythm. And whilst the ICU seem to be doing all they can, it’s just not a good environment for him. And we believe going home. We’ll speed up the process and weaning him off the ventilator. Please let me know how you can help us. From, Jenna Hi Jenna, Thank you so much for your question and for your email. Now, what you are describing here is, sounds to me like we can help you get your dad home on a ventilator with a tracheostomy and continue the weaning him off the ventilator at home. Now, in terms of cost, the ICU bed costs around $6,000 per bed day. We can probably provide that for around half of the cost, which means your private health insurance will have an interest in cutting down that cost by half. So the private health insurance will probably pay for it. And the ICU should have an interest in helping your dad leave ICU, free up the ICU bed, free up equipment, free up staff and make room for another patient that is in a dire need of ICU, because your dad can really be looked after at home going forward. In terms of medical oversight, that could be a GP. It could be here in Melbourne. It could be the Victorian Respiratory Support Service (VRSS), at the Austin hospital. There are a number of avenues we can help you with from a medical point of view. How we can help you with medical oversight and also help us because we can’t really take your dad home against medical advice and we don’t want to do that either. But it sounds to me like your dad is a very good candidate for going home and the cost will be taken care of. I’m pretty sure by the private health insurance. From our end, it’ll probably take a few weeks to set it up, getting equipment, getting staff and so forth, but we’ve done it before and we can do it for your dad as well. We are Melbourne bases. You might be aware. So get in contact with us and we’ll go from there. Probably best to call me on 0410942230. Take care. Continue reading at: https://intensivecareathome.com/my-dad-is-on-a-ventilator-for-3-months-is-suffering-from-a-major-depression-here-in-icu-can-your-service-at-intensive-care-at-home-help-us-bring-him-home/

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https://intensivecareathome.com/im-36-with-duchenne-syndrome-ventilated-trach-2-yrs-icu-can-intensive-care-at-home-get-me-home/ I'm 36 with Duchenne Syndrome,Ventilated & Trach -2 Yrs ICU -Can INTENSIVE CARE at HOME Get Me Home? Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/IntensiveCareHotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline Song: Jarico - Island Music supported by@FreeBackgroundMusicForCreators #BackgroundMusicWithoutLimitations https://bit.ly/2XoXFnb #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies and where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality services for long-term ventilated adults and children and medically complex patients at home including Home TPN (total parenteral nutrition), Home IV potassium infusions, Home IV magnesium infusions, Home BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), Home CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) ventilation, tracheostomy care for adults and children that are not ventilated. We also provide port management, central line management, Hickman’s line management, and PICC (peripherally inserted central catheter) line management as well, and palliative care at home as well. Now in today’s blog, I want to read out an email from one of our readers who says, “Hi, Patrik, I have a ventilator and a tracheostomy that I use around the clock. I have been in hospital for two years now trying to get back home to be with my family. I’m 36 have a sound mind and even a degree. So, I’m aware of everything. I have Duchenne muscular dystrophy. I have always lived at home until I was 34 and I’m two hours away from any family. I really want to change that and get my life back on track. I used to work from home and contribute to society and I know going home would save a lot of money. I have tried many avenues and talked to many people and programs and keep hitting roadblock after roadblock. Every time I get my hopes up, I get denied or told another lie. I’ve been on waiting lists for months and after that, I get told the program I applied to cannot help me even though I tell them all my conditions and medical necessities upfront. They contact me later saying I need more help than the program can provide a ventilator and tracheostomy should not be a life sentence to be served in a hospital. We have landed on the moon for goodness’s sake. Surely, there is a solution in 2024. I just know there is. Please let me know if you receive this message. I truly hope to get any good news. From Nick.” Well, Nick, thank you so much for your email and I’m very sorry to hear about your situation. Well, the good news is we have taken many patients home in similar situations from hospitals, from ICUs, after two years in ICU. That’s actually been the longest that we had someone there before we could actually take them home until funding was approved until there was a house renovated and so forth. So, you are in a position where this can be provided for you as well. There is no issue with getting you home besides, simply doing it. Now, you have not shared with me your location, but I presume you are in Australia. And you know, at your young age of 36, you will be eligible for the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) and the NDIS in Australia is funding most of our clients for 24-hour nursing care. So, really you are in a good position. But even if you’re not in Australia, you should be reaching out to us because even if you are in the U.S. or in the U.K., we can help you privately. So, one way or another, we can help you. So, this is just the start of a hopefully fruitful conversation to get you home. Continuation... https://intensivecareathome.com/im-36-with-duchenne-syndrome-ventilated-trach-2-yrs-icu-can-intensive-care-at-home-get-me-home/

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https://intensivecareathome.com/can-my-husband-with-tracheostomy-peg-percutaneous-endoscopic-gastrostomy-go-home-from-icu-without-24-7-critical-care-nurses/ Can My Husband with Tracheostomy & PEG Go Home from ICU Without 24/7 Critical Care Nurses? Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ICUhotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline Song: Jarico - Island Music supported by@FreeBackgroundMusicForCreators #BackgroundMusicWithoutLimitations https://bit.ly/2XoXFnb #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies, and where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality services for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies, medically complex patients, adults and children at home, BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) ventilation at home, and also for adults and children that are not ventilated but have a tracheostomy, and also Home TPN (total parenteral nutrition), Home IV potassium infusions and Home IV magnesium infusions, as well as palliative care, and IV antibiotics, which includes PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line, central line, Hickman’s line, and Port-a-cath Management at home as well. Now, today, I want to answer a question from one of our clients who’s also a member of our membership for families of critically ill patients in intensive care. We help families, not only with Intensive Care at Home, we also help families that have a loved one in intensive care by answering their questions, by advocating for them. We have a membership for families of critically ill patients in intensive care at intensivecarehotline.com when you click on the membership link there or by going to intensivecaresupport.org directly. But without further ado, let’s read out the question from one of our members who has their husband in ICU on a tracheostomy and a nasogastric tube. She wants to take her husband home, but obviously it needs to be safe, and we are guiding her how to get her husband home safe. So, let’s just read out the email from our member who says, “Hi, Patrik and team, My husband is still in the hospital. He completed the FEES (fiberoptic evaluation of swallowing) test last week, Thursday. The speech pathologist stated that his swallowing muscles are weak, so they will be implementing exercises for him to do. The speech pathologist has advised swallowing with a few pieces of ice daily by the nurses. His oxygen level is 100%. His heart rate can be high at times, so he’s been given metoprolol as needed to get his heart rate down. I think he needs magnesium glycinate to control the heart rate. He was prescribed that at Emory Hospital, but the doctor states his magnesium level is good, or he could be deficient in taurine is my opinion. The speech pathologist worked with my husband on Monday only. Hopefully, she will work with him more often. I’m torn between whether he should go to rehab or whether I should take him home. But the rehab facilities don’t seem to have any beds at this time, and they also seem to be out of their depth with a tracheostomy and a nasogastric tube. I told the case manager yesterday that there are many things a tracheostomy patient should have in place before going home.” Exactly. That’s exactly right and that is what we are here for with Intensive Care at Home, making sure that your husband can go home safely. Continuation... https://intensivecareathome.com/can-my-husband-with-tracheostomy-peg-percutaneous-endoscopic-gastrostomy-go-home-from-icu-without-24-7-critical-care-nurses/

My Mother's Been in ICU 4.5 Months & Can't Come Off the Ventilator! ICU Wants Hospice, We Want Her Home! Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/IntensiveCareHotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline

ICU Doctors are Telling Me Mom Won't Be Able to Get Off Ventilation & Tracheostomy, Can She Go Home? Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/IntensiveCareHotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline Song: Jarico - Island Music supported by@FreeBackgroundMusicForCreators #BackgroundMusicWithoutLimitations https://bit.ly/2XoXFnb #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare

My Husband's Back in ICU with Tracheostomy&Nasogastric Tube,Can INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME Get Him Home? Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/IntensiveCareHotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline Song: Jarico - Island Music supported by@FreeBackgroundMusicForCreators #BackgroundMusicWithoutLimitations https://bit.ly/2XoXFnb #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare

What's the Difference Between BiPAP& CPAP in the Community& When Do You Need INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME? Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/IntensiveCareHotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline Song: Jarico - Island Music supported by@FreeBackgroundMusicForCreators #BackgroundMusicWithoutLimitations https://bit.ly/2XoXFnb #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare

https://intensivecareathome.com/dad-left-icu-with-tracheostomy-no-icu-nurses-got-readmitted-can-he-go-home-with-intensive-care-at-home/ Dad Left ICU with Trache, no ICU Nurses,&Got Readmitted. Can He Go Home with Intensive Care at Home? Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/IntensiveCareHotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline Song: Jarico - Island Music supported by@FreeBackgroundMusicForCreators #BackgroundMusicWithoutLimitations https://bit.ly/2XoXFnb #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com, where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term, ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies. And where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality care for long-term, ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies and medically complex patients at home including Home BiPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), Home CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), Home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition), Home IV potassium infusion and the electrolyte infusions, IV antibiotics. We also provide services to clients at home that are not ventilated but have a tracheostomy and who need 24-hour intensive care nurses at home. We’re also providing an emergency department, bypass service for the Western Sydney local area health district. So if you need CCRNs to provide an emergency department bypass service for your hospital, please reach out to us. So in today’s video, I want to answer a question from one of our members. We also actually have a membership for families in intensive care and you can get access to the membership for families in intensive care at intensivecarehotline.com by clicking on the membership link or by going to intensivecaresupport.org directly. So today, I have a question from one of our members who had their dad in ICU for prolonged periods and then went home more or less out of sheer desperation because they did no longer want to stay in hospital because they just thought it was terrible. And they were, for lack of a better term, desperate to go home, which is what they decided to do. But they decided to go home without 24-hour intensive care nurses even though their dad had a tracheostomy. So, he bounced back into hospital, which is no surprise to me. Let me read out the email from our member who says, “Hi Patrik and Team, Earlier this year, as you know, my dad suffered a heart attack. He got discharged from the hospital in the beginning of September with a tracheostomy and wasn’t quite ready for rehabilitation therapy. So they recommended, for him to stay in hospital. My mom and I visited obviously daily, but it wasn’t a good experience. So he went home with minimal support and minimal nursing. Just a nurse once a week who wasn’t tracheostomy competent, but he was discharged too soon without little support. Needless to say that my dad bounced back and forth into the hospital just like you predicted. And back home two times before he came back home mid-October. Until last week, the end of November to go back into hospital. Again he’s had all sorts of setbacks and he’s now in the hospital with a pressure wound area around stage 4 to 5 that originated in the hospital bed he was at in the emergency department, the second time he went back into the hospital. The MRI showed that the pressure sore is to his bone. He’s in ICU at this time, but I have set up his patient portal, I would like you to look at the medical records. I’m reaching out to see if Intensive Care at Home services can still help. And they’re talking about possible surgery to clean his wounds out and all the risks that are involved due to his fragile condition. What do you think is the best option here?” Continue reading at: https://intensivecareathome.com/dad-left-icu-with-tracheostomy-no-icu-nurses-got-readmitted-can-he-go-home-with-intensive-care-at-home/

24/7 ICU Nurses Needed at Home for Ventilated/ Tracheostomy Clients to Avoid Death & ICU Readmissions Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/IntensiveCareHotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline Song: Jarico - Island Music supported by@FreeBackgroundMusicForCreators #BackgroundMusicWithoutLimitations https://bit.ly/2XoXFnb #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare

My Father Had a Large Stroke, Can't Manage His secretions & is Ventilated. I Like to Bring Him Home! Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/IntensiveCareHotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline Song: Jarico - Island Music supported by@FreeBackgroundMusicForCreators #BackgroundMusicWithoutLimitations https://bit.ly/2XoXFnb #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare

https://intensivecareathome.com/intensive-care-at-home-can-take-over-blue-care-ndis-nursing-contracts-in-queensland/ INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME Can Take Over Blue Care NDIS Nursing Contracts in Queensland Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/IntensiveCareHotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/IntensiveCareHotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline Song: Jarico - Island Music supported by@FreeBackgroundMusicForCreators #BackgroundMusicWithoutLimitations https://bit.ly/2XoXFnb #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term, ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies and where we also provide tailor-made solutions to hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality services for our clients as well as for hospitals and intensive care units. We also provide services to adults and children with tracheostomies and are not ventilated. We provide services to adults and children that are on BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure) or CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) ventilation, seizure management at home, as well as Home TPN (total parenteral nutrition), Home potassium infusion, central line management, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line management, Hickman’s line management as well as IV antibiotics at home. So in today’s video, I really want to address the people in Queensland, in Australia because Blue Care, one of the local providers there has dropped their NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) contract from what we heard. And if your NDIS contract has been dropped by Blue Care and you’re looking for an NDIS nursing service provider, we want to hear from you because we can help you. We have already had inquiries from some Blue Care clients and we have already started with one Blue Care client that could no longer be served by Blue Care. So we are here to help you as well in Queensland. I mean, we operate all around Australia, but really if you are in need of home care nursing funded by the NDIS in Queensland, we want to hear from you because we can help you. And if you’re an NDIS Support Coordinator and your participants have been dropped by Blue Care, again, we can help your NDIS participants with home care nursing as well. I welcome you to reach out to us either at the intensivecareathome.com through our contact form or you could just call us on 1 300 921 536. That is again, 1 300 921 536 or send us an email to info@intensivecareathome.com or you can call me on my mobile phone directly. 041 0942230, that is again 041 0942230, we absolutely want to hear from you. So, we also help families in intensive care to get their loved ones out of intensive care if they’re in stuck in intensive care long term, especially when it comes to the conditions that I just mentioned long-term ventilation tracheostomy, tracheostomy and no ventilation, BiPAP, CPAP ventilation and no tracheostomy. We are here to serve all of you. Continuation... https://intensivecareathome.com/intensive-care-at-home-can-take-over-blue-care-ndis-nursing-contracts-in-queensland/

Another Palliative Care Success Story for an INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME Client! Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/IntensiveCareHotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline Song: Jarico - Island Music supported by@FreeBackgroundMusicForCreators #BackgroundMusicWithoutLimitations https://bit.ly/2XoXFnb #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare

https://intensivecareathome.com/intensive-care-at-home-at-the-hospital-in-the-home-conference/ INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME at the Hospital in the Home Conference Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/ Call directly 24/7 +1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada +44 118 324 3018 UK +6141 094 2230 Australia Email support@intensivecarehotline.com Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy 1:1 phone counselling http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/ Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/ Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/ https://intensivecareathome.com And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU. https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/IntensiveCareHotline Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline Song: Jarico - Island Music supported by@FreeBackgroundMusicForCreators #BackgroundMusicWithoutLimitations https://bit.ly/2XoXFnb #icu #intensivecare #criticalcare Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com, where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term, ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies. And where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality services for long-term, ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies. Otherwise, medically complex patients at home including for patients that are not ventilated but have a tracheostomy or that are ventilated with BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure) or CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) and don’t have a tracheostomy. We’re also looking at home after patients with Home TPN (total parenteral nutrition), Home IV fluids, IV antibiotics, electrolyte infusions such as potassium and magnesium. We can do all of that at home. Now, in today’s video I just want to quickly give a quick update. Last week, I actually went to the hospital in the home conference here in Adelaide in Australia. Now I haven’t been to the hospital in the home conference for quite some time because in the past, quite frankly, I thought it was a bit stale and I felt like, we are too far ahead in comparison to other services because we are sending intensive care nurses into the home and instead of hospital in the home, we are doing Intensive Care at Home. So we do it one notch up and I can say that with much confidence. And last week was a great conference. By the way, I met many other providers, that are doing hospital in the home. There are a lot of similar challenges that other providers have when it comes to staffing, whether it comes to, some funding issues, when it comes to providing services in remote locations. But one takeaway for me was still, we are the service in Australia that brings the best skills into the community. We are the only service in the country that a) is third party accredited for Intensive Care at Home nursing and b) brings intensive care nurses or critical care nurses into the home. No other service can match that level of skill that we are bringing into the community. As a matter of fact, we are sending hundreds of years of critical care nursing experience into the community that is unmatched. We are still able to provide intensive care services to the sickest clients in the community in the country, in Australia. And we do it as a third party accredited service provider. No other in Australia can match that level of expertise in the community. So that means, if you have a family member in intensive care, that’s long-term, ventilated with a tracheostomy or stuck in intensive care with a tracheostomy but not ventilated or stuck in hospital on a ventilator, BiPAP, CPAP without a tracheostomy that needs Home TPN, that needs IV Potassium, IV magnesium, you need to come to us because we can help you with all of that. And if you are a hospital and you have bed blocks in ICU, you have bed blocks on your ward or ventilation, tracheostomy, BiPAP, CPAP, TPN, IV potassium, IV magnesium infusions, IV antibiotics. We are the go to service because we can manage all of that at home because of our third-party accreditation and because of our high skill level in the community. Continuation... https://intensivecareathome.com/intensive-care-at-home-at-the-hospital-in-the-home-conference/