Can Intensive Care at Home Help my Sister on a Ventilator w/ Trache & PEG to Live Normally at Home?

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Can Intensive Care at Home Help My Sister on A Ventilator with Tracheostomy & PEG to Live a Normal Life at Home?

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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 and medically-complex adults and children at home, including home TPN (total parenteral nutrition). Also including home non-invasive ventilations such as BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure) or CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure).

Now, in today’s blog, I want to answer another question from one of our readers and prospective clients and this is from Angie, who says, “My sister is 66-years old and has COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and a host of many more underlying problems. She’s on a ventilator now and is having a tracheostomy put in as we speak. She lives alone and is required to use a walker for mobility. She will also have a PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) tube put in, because they think she won’t be able to come off the ventilator at all. Do you think she would possibly be able to live a normal life at home?” Well, that is a great question, and let me share this with you.

You’re saying, your sister has been able to walk before this hospital admission. Will she go back to walking? I don’t know. It’s hard to say. Will she live a normal life if she’s on a ventilator with a tracheostomy and a PEG tube? Probably not in comparison to what her quality of life was like before she went into hospital being ventilated with a tracheostomy and a PEG.

However, here is what Intensive Care at Home will do for your sister. It will normalize her life and it will give her a much better quality of life compared to an institutionalized, intensive care unit. I mean, by the sounds of things you’ve seen your sister in ICU, you’ve seen the institution, you know that it’s not the right place for someone potentially facing weeks or months on a ventilator, needing to be weaned of a ventilator.

Now, the other thing that you haven’t shared is, just because your sister has comorbidities such as asthma or COPD, doesn’t mean she can’t come off the ventilator. That’s hard to say. You haven’t given me enough information. Can she be weaned off the ventilator at home, for example? Those are the type of questions you need to ask, but in terms of your sister can improve her quality of life at home as opposed to an intensive care unit, no question about that.

Again, imagine your sister stuck in an ICU, in a hospital, where it’s noisy 24-hours a day. It’s never pitch black. It always feels like there’s daylight, there’s always people around, always people talking, people can’t really rest in there, which is not conducive for recovery either. In order to get back to a normal day and night rhythm, for example, which is very hard to achieve in an intensive care unit, that is something that can be achieved at home. It’s only one of the many things that can be achieved at home.

But with Intensive Care at Home, we’re bringing the intensive care into your home, especially when someone is ventilated with a tracheostomy, and it will improve your sister’s quality of life tenfold by having nurses coming into your home and looking after your sister there.

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