The ICU Team has Told Me My Dad will Never Get Off the Ventilator. Is it True?

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Quick Tip for Families in ICU: The ICU team has told me my dad will never get off the ventilator, is it true?

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

Today’s tip is about a client asking, “The ICU team has told me my dad will never come off the ventilator. Is this true?” Well, great question, and let’s look at the facts here. And may I start with, that the biggest challenge for families in intensive care is simply that they don’t know what they don’t know. They don’t know what to look for. They don’t know what questions to ask. They don’t know their rights, and they don’t know how to manage doctors and nurses in intensive care. And this could not be a better example for what I just said.

So, client comes to us and says, “Hey, my 78-year-old dad has Parkinson’s. He’s got dementia. He aspirated at home on food, and he ended up with an aspiration pneumonia in ICU. And now, the doctors are telling me he will never come off the ventilator and he needs a tracheostomy, and he needs to go to a nursing home or to LTAC, and he will never get off the ventilator. Well, let’s look at the facts.

So, we asked the client to give us facts and give us picture of the ventilator, give us an arterial blood gas, give us a chest x-ray and let’s look at the facts on what they’re claiming is true. And this is about day 4 or day 5 in ICU. And the ICU also pushing the family to say, “Well, he either needs a tracheostomy or he will need to go to hospice.”

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