How to Get My Mother Home with Equipment That She Needs, She's in ICU with Tracheostomy & Dialysis

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How to Get My Mother Home with Equipment That She Needs, She's in ICU with Tracheostomy & Dialysis

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Hello and welcome to another Intensive Care at Home livestream.

Today’s topic is about a question again that we had from a reader and prospective client, and the question today is, “How to get my mother home with equipment that she needs? She’s in ICU with tracheostomy and dialysis.” So, that is the question we are going to address today.

Hi, Tom. Thanks, nice to see you. I hope you’re well and I hope your son is well in particular. Nice to see you.

So, before we go into today’s topic, just a couple of housekeeping issues. If you have questions, please type them into the chat pad and I will address them as we go along. If we have time, I will also give you the option to call in live on the show and ask questions. Depends on how much time we’ve got. We’ll be going for up to an hour. I also want to welcome the viewers that watch this recording in the replay. So, also want to welcome those viewers.

Now, before I go into today’s topic, what makes me qualified to talk about today’s topic? I am a critical care nurse by background, and I have been working in intensive care/critical care for over 20 years in three different countries. I have extensive experience within the Intensive Care at Home space. I was part of first successfully setting up Intensive Care at Home in Germany in the late 1990s, early 2000s before I started my own Intensive Care at Home service here in Australia. So, I know this space right from the start, from the ground off. We were pioneers there and then in Germany, no other country had done this before and now we have launched it on a larger scale here in Australia and we are on the verge of launching it into the U.S. as well.

So then, I have worked in intensive care for over 20 years. I’ve also worked as a nurse unit manager in intensive care for over 5 years and I have been consulting and advocating for families in intensive care for the last 10 years as part of my intensivecarehotline.com consulting and advocacy service for families in intensive care. So, I’m literally talking to people in intensive care or within intensive care at home every day of the week and that is all around the world really.

Now, with Intensive Care at Home at the moment, we are predominantly operating all around Australia. We have clients predominantly on the East Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, but also country Victoria, and also country New South Wales. If you are watching this and you are in Australia, please contact us and we can help you with taking your loved one home from intensive care.

Most of our clients in Australia are getting funding through the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) but some of our clients also get funding through the TAC, the Transport Accident Commission in Victoria. Also, through the DVA, the Department of Veteran Affairs, iCare in New South Wales, as well as NIISQ (National Injury Insurance Scheme in Queensland), as well as funding from hospitals directly.

Bear in mind when we take someone home from intensive care, it’s a win-win situation. We are cutting the cost of an intensive care bed by approximately 50%. We are freeing up an in-demand ICU bed and most importantly, we are providing quality of life and in some instances, quality of end-of-life for patients and families in intensive care. So, it’s a win-win situation all around.

So, that’s a little bit about me to set the scene, what we’re talking about today. Once we’ve answered our reader’s question, we will also answer other questions that came in during the week.

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