What Can You Do for My Mother at Home? There is No Quality of Life in ICU! INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME!

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What Can You Do for My Mother at Home? There is No Quality of Life in ICU! INTENSIVE CARE 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 services for long-term ventilated adults and children and medically complex adults and children at home. Including Home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition), BiPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) ventilation as well as tracheostomy care without ventilation, as well as IV potassium, and IV electrolyte infusions at home as well.

Now in today’s videos, I want to answer a question from one of our readers who says, and this is from Juliette who says, “What can you do for my mother at home? There’s no quality of life in ICU. She’s been there for six weeks now. Can you take her home?”

Well, this is going to be a really short video today. But of course, we can take your mother home. I mean that’s bread and butter for us to take long-term patients out of ICU, assuming they are ventilated, have a tracheostomy. But even if there are other issues such as maybe it’s palliative care. Maybe it’s Home TPN in particular, maybe it’s an electrolyte imbalance such as low potassium, high potassium, we can manage all of that at home. Or maybe your mom is CPAP dependent, BiPAP-dependent in ICU. Maybe she is hemodynamically unstable, then we would need to make an assessment whether we can manage that at home.

Let’s just say she’s inotrope or vasopressor dependent, but we can assess that and take her home from there. But the reality is that after six weeks in ICU, of course, there is no quality of life in ICU. And you want your mom at home, I guess there’s the added-on benefit. You are probably and are probably other family members, you are spending day and night in intensive care to be with your mom and that’s not healthy either.

On top of that, the intensive care unit probably needs to free up the bed. There’s a high demand on ICU beds. The most sought-after bed in a hospital is the intensive care bed without the shadow of a doubt. The most sought-after staff in the hospital are intensive care, nurses, intensive care doctors. So, by taking a patient home from intensive care, you’re also taking the pressure off the hospital and the intensive care unit in particular. So, there’s only benefits by taking your mom home. It’s only creating a win-win situation and we can help you with all of that.

The next step really is to reach out to us to take the next steps, talk to the ICU, look at the funding. Again, from a funding perspective, we are currently predominantly operating all around Australia. The NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) is one of the funding bodies that our clients are using, but we are also TAC (Transport Accident Care) funded in Victoria, ICare in New South Wales, and NIISQ (National Injury Insurance Scheme in Queensland) and DVA in all around Australia, the Department of Veteran Affairs. We also have received funding from public hospitals and Departments of Health. So one way or another, you should reach out to us.

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