My Mother is in ICU for 10 Days with COPD & Ventilation, Does She Need a Tracheostomy or Extubation?

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Quick Tip for Families in Intensive Care: My Mother is in ICU for 10 Days with COPD & Ventilation, Does She Need a Tracheostomy or Extubation?

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Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care.

So, today’s tip is about an email that we had from a reader who says, “My mom is in ICU, and she’s starting to get stronger and more aware, but the doctors used her sedation and said, for her swelling to go down. But the last CT (Computed Tomography) scan was on August 8, and it’s been a week and 2 days, and she’s breathing on her own. But she does have COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). And they’re saying, they don’t want to take the tube out yet and want to do a tracheostomy, but not giving her a chance to see if she can breathe without it. What do I do to give her body time to heal without getting a tracheostomy?” What a great question.

So yes, they probably use sedation to heal your mom. You didn’t actually say why she is in ICU. She’s probably got some issues from the COPD. Maybe she had a pneumonia, maybe she had COVID, you didn’t specify. But the reality is that, she’s not strong enough and they want to do a tracheostomy and they’re not giving her a chance to see if she can breathe without it.

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