ICU is telling me my Dad will never come off the ventilator, is this true? Live stream!

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ICU is telling me my Dad will never come off the ventilator, is this true? Live stream!

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Hello, and welcome to another Intensive Care Hotline and Intensive Care at Home livestream.

In today’s topic, I want to talk about, “ICU is telling me my dad will never come off the ventilator. Is this true?” Unless you know by now, most livestreams that I’m doing here, they are really answering questions that we get from clients or readers or YouTube subscribers all the time. They’re also driven by phone calls that I have with clients, or Zoom calls, or Skype calls, or WhatsApp calls, whatever it is, because they are real questions that our clients are asking.

And this one is really a question that stood out. And because of how the ICU team reacted, and what information we gathered after we spoke to the client, and then got more information from the client.

Hello, I still can’t read your name because the name comes up in letters that I can’t read, but doesn’t matter. I want to welcome you, anyway. I know you’ve been here before and I appreciate you joining.

Okay. So, before we dive into today’s topic, I just want to quickly talk about what makes me qualified to talk about this topic. So, I’m an intensive care nurse by background. I have worked in intensive care for over 20 years in three different countries. And I have worked as a nurse unit manager for over five years in intensive care. I have managed two different intensive care units, and managed hundreds of staff really in ICU, including large nursing team, but also doctors, stakeholders within a hospital, such as general managers, directors of nursing and so forth. I am also the founder of Intensive Care at Home, where we provide intensive care at home nursing services for long-term ventilated patients at home instead of in intensive care.

We are predominantly operating at the moment in major metropolitan cities in Australia, Melbourne, Sydney in particular, but also in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth. And we could also provide services in Alice Springs or Darwin or in Tasmania, Hobart. And, in particular, I’m also the founder of Intensive Care Hotline, a consulting and advocacy service for families in intensive care. And I started Intensive Care at Home and Intensive Care Hotline around the same time, 2012, 2013. So, we’ve been operating for a long time. With Intensive Care Hotline in particular, we are consulting and advocating for families in intensive care all around the world, all day, every day.

So, a couple of housekeeping issues. I do want to go through today’s topic, and then I will answer any questions, either related to today’s topic or any other questions I can see. You already have sent a question, but I will come to this later, as it’s not quite related to today’s topic. But I certainly will answer it at the end of today’s presentation.

I also want to quickly highlight that I changed the times. You might have seen that in the last couple of weeks. I scheduled the calls for 6:30 PM Eastern Standard Time in the U.S., on a Saturday night. I realize that might be too early for some of the folks coming on these calls, so I pushed it back to 7:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, which is 4:30 PM Pacific Time. And for me at the moment, it’s 11:30 AM on a Sunday in Melbourne, Sydney Time, Australia. Anyway, so let’s dive into today’s topic.

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