My mother’s been in ICU for 8 weeks on a ventilator with tracheostomy, can she go home?Live stream!

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Hello everyone! My name is Patrik Hutzel from Intensive Care At Home and Intensive Care Hotline. I want to welcome you to another livestream today. Today’s livestream is about, “My Mother Has Been in Intensive Care for Eight Weeks, on a Ventilator with a Tracheostomy, Can She Go Home?”

Well, this is a question we get all the time, and I would be able to replace my mother to my father, my spouse, my brother, my sister, my brother-in-law, my sister-in-law. I could replace that with any other family relation, really. I could replace it with my son, my daughter. And it’s quite a common scenario we are seeing across the board, and we have been seeing for many years now, been seeing it for over 20 years now. And, if that is a question that you have in your mind, I can tell you that there is a solution for that, and that’s what I want to talk about today.

I want to welcome you to the livestream, and I want to welcome you to this video, and I want to thank you for joining the livestream and for putting your questions forward so we can do those livestream and elaborate on your questions. Just very quickly, type your questions in the chat pad, as we go along. I want to keep it to about half an hour, because I am conscious of your time. Especially if you have a loved one in intensive care, you probably have better things to do. But you can also watch this when it goes as an upload on YouTube, once we’re done here with the livestream.

Very briefly, what makes me qualified to talk about this topic today? I am a critical care nurse, intensive care nurse, with over 20 years in international experience. I have worked in three different countries, and I have worked for over five years as a nurse unit manager in intensive care. And, I also have many years and almost another decade of experience with intensive care at home. And, I set up my own service, Intensive Care At Home, where we are providing this very service for patients to go home from intensive care, to a home care environment with intensive care nurses 24 hours a day.

The service that we’re currently running is predominantly in Australia, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane on the East Coast, but we’re also going into country Victoria, country New South Wales, Adelaide, Perth, all over the country, really. And, we’re having so many inquiries also from the United States. Now, Intensive Care at Home Services have been around for over 20 years now. They originally started out in Germany, in the late 1990s, and I was part of it. Then in Germany, I was pioneering the service then with a group of people. I can’t take credit for the original idea, but I was working with an amazing group of people, where we rolled it out in Germany. And now, I’ve been rolling it out with my team, of course, here in Australia.

And also, as part of that, I’ve got decades of experience with all of that, and as part of that, I also run an organization, intensivecarehotline.com, where we consult and advocate for families in intensive care, all around the world, and deal with issues such as the one we want to discuss today, “My Mom’s Been in ICU for Eight Weeks, on a Ventilator with a Tracheostomy, Can She Go Home?” And again, I could replace my mom with my dad, my brother, my sister, my spouse, my son, my daughter. It comes in all sorts of varying degrees. But, the common issue is, what they all have in common is, they’re stuck on a ventilator, in intensive care for, let’s just say, six weeks, eight weeks, 10 weeks, three months, time goes on. I’ve seen patients in the ICU for over 18 months, because they’re ventilator-dependent with a tracheostomy and they can’t go anywhere, because the only way to take those patients home is on a ventilator with the tracheostomy, with intensive care nurses 24 hours a day. Anything less than that simply puts their lives at risk.

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