The ICU team is saying that my Dad will need to be weaned off ventilation&tracheostomy in LTAC.Help!

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Quick Tip for Families in ICU: The ICU team is saying that my Dad will need to be weaned off ventilation&tracheostomy in LTAC,help!

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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 a frustration that a reader shares and the reader says, “My frustration is that the ICU tells me that my loved one will need to have a tracheostomy and then go to LTAC to be weaned off the ventilator there.” And in case you don’t know what LTAC is, LTAC stands for long-term acute care hospital or acute care. This is predominantly for our audience in the U.S., but I will talk about other countries such as Australia, and the U.K., and Canada in immediate as well. So, stay tuned.

So, in the U.S., what’s unique there is that a lot of patients in ICU that can’t be weaned off the ventilator with a breathing tube may end up with a tracheostomy and then the ICU’s trying to send them to LTAC as quickly as possible and that is simply dangerous. So, before you agree to a tracheostomy and LTAC, or sometimes it’s also called subacute facility or skilled nursing facility, or simply a rehab facility, you need to do your research because otherwise, you and your loved one are in danger territory. Let me explain.

Continue reading at: https://intensivecarehotline.com/blog/quick-tip-for-families-in-intensive-care-the-icu-team-is-saying-that-my-dad-will-need-to-be-weaned-off-ventilation-tracheostomy-in-ltac-help/