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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening wherever you are. Welcome to another live stream of Intensive Care at Home and Intensive Care Hotline. My name is Patrik Hutzel, founder and editor of Intensive Care Hotline, and also operating manager and director of Intensive Care at Home. I want to welcome you to another live stream.

And in today’s live stream, I want to talk about “What’s my Dad’s Life Expectancy After He had a Tracheostomy?” And this is a question we get all the time, especially for Intensive Care at Home. And with more and more families getting educated in intensive care, they’re looking for options and they want to know what’s the next step. And they don’t want to be brushed off by intensive care teams not giving them options and they’re doing their own research. And that’s what this is all about today.

I want to help you understand what is your dad’s life expectancy after he had a tracheostomy, but it could also be what’s your mom’s life expectancy, what’s your sister’s life expectancy, what’s your child’s life expectancy.

Hi, Modema and nice to see you again and welcome to everyone who’s on the call now. So that’s what the live stream is all about today. And please type your questions into the chat pad, keep them on today’s topic. But if you have any other questions that are not on today’s topic, but are intensive care related or Intensive Care at Home related, I will absolutely get to them by the end of this presentation.

Now, before we dive into today’s presentation you might wonder what makes me qualified to talk about this topic. So I am a critical care nurse by background. I have worked in intensive care/critical care for over 20 years in three different countries. Out of those 20 years, I have worked as a nurse unit manager for over five years in ICU. I am the founder and director of Intensive Care at Home where we provide Intensive Care at Home nursing services for our predominantly long-term intensive care patients with a tracheostomy and ventilation, but also otherwise, medically complex clients at home that are in need of an intensive care nurse, 24 hours a day that otherwise would be in ICU or would no longer be alive.

Also since 2013, I have also consulted and advocated for families in intensive care all around the world as part of my Intensive Care Hotline consulting and advocacy service for families in intensive care. But that’s enough about me, let’s dive into today’s topic.

At the end of the presentation, you will also have the opportunity not only to ask your questions, you can also dial in live on the show and ask questions over the phone, which I will be able to answer here on the stream as well for everyone that wants to take up that option as well. So in the meantime, use the chat pad, keep the questions on today’s topic if you can and ask any other questions that are not related to today’s topic at the end of this presentation.

So coming back to today’s topic, “What’s my dad’s life expectancy after he had a tracheostomy?” Let’s break this down and let’s wind the time back a little bit just before your dad has a tracheostomy or your mom or your sister or your brother or your child, anyone for that matter, what should happen first?

Well, the first thing that should happen, and the first thing that I always say is, has the intensive care team done everything beyond the shadow of a doubt to keep your dad alive and avoid the tracheostomy and get them extubated? That is the very first question you should be asking before you’re even thinking about what my dad’s life expectancy is after he had a tracheostomy. I’ve done countless videos and blog posts about this topic, when to extubate a patient and avoid a tracheostomy? And I’ve done a live stream about that as well, how to avoid a tracheostomy in the first place?

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