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Welcome to another livestream of intensivecarehotline.com. My name is Patrik Hutzel, founder and editor of Intensive Care Hotline, and critical care nurse consultant for families in intensive care. Welcome to another intensivecarehotline.com livestream.

Today, I want to talk about, “Should you go to a family meeting with the ICU team when you have a loved one in intensive care?”

Before I go into today’s topic, you might want to find out what makes me qualified to talk about this topic, so here’s a little bit about myself. I am a critical care nurse by background. I have worked in intensive care for over 20 years in three different countries. Out of those 20 years in intensive care, I have worked for over five years as a nurse unit manager in intensive care. I have also worked, and I am still working in Intensive Care at Home. I’m also the founder and director of a company called Intensive Care at Home. We are basically sending intensive care nurses into the home for predominantly long-term intensive care patients, predominantly ventilated with tracheostomy. We have been doing that successfully since 2013.

By the same token, I’m also running a company called intensivecarehotline.com, which is what we’re talking about today, where we have been consulting and advocating for families in intensive care for the last nine years now, since 2013 as well. I’m talking to people all over the world every day with their grievances when they have families in ICU, when they have loved ones in ICU. We are helping them to get outcomes, get results through advocacy and consulting by giving our insights and our expertise.

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Let’s dive into today’s topic, “Should you go into a family meeting when you have a loved one in intensive care?” Let’s set the scene here. I’ve been in hundreds of family meetings throughout my career in ICU, whether in ICU directly or whether as a consultant or advocate for families in intensive care. I’ve been sitting in many meeting rooms with families, with ICU doctors, with ICU nurses, with social workers, other specialists and so forth. I have also been in probably hundreds of family meetings over the phone or on Skype or on Zoom with my clients here at intensivecarehotline.com and advocating for them.

Here is a common scenario that I encounter in my day-to-day practice at intensivecarehotline.com, but also a common practice that I’ve encountered in the years that I’ve worked in ICU. We get many phone calls where a prospective client calls us and says, “Hey, my dad’s in ICU. He’s had a stroke, he’s been ventilated for two weeks, and they’ve asked me for a family meeting tomorrow at three o’clock. What should I do? And what questions should we be asking?”

So, here’s the first question you should be asking, should you even go? Should you even go to the family meeting? My answer is it depends. Nine times out of 10, the family meeting is constructed by intensive care teams in a way to put pressure on you and to deliver bad news. I can assure you, nine times out of 10, from my experience, a family meeting is to deliver bad news. If they have good news, it could just be mentioned casually.

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