Quick tip for families in ICU: What are the disadvantages of being ventilated for more than 10 days?

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Quick tip for families in ICU: What are the disadvantages of being ventilated for more than 10 days?

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

So Glen, one of our readers writes, he says, what are the disadvantages of being ventilated for longer than 10 days?

So, Glen, that’s a very good question and I presume you are referring to needing a tracheostomy after about 10 or 14 days in ICU. Because that’s when most families in intensive care, and also ICU teams referred to the sort of 10-day mark of being ventilated.

So there’s advantages and disadvantages of being ventilated for longer than 10 days. The advantage is that somebody can be weaned off the ventilator in their own time once a tracheostomy has been done. So basically, when somebody goes into ICU and he’s ventilated, they go into ICU and start off with the breathing tube or an endotracheal tube in their mouth.

And then after about 10 days, if they can’t be weaned off the ventilator and extubated, they need a tracheostomy simply because a breathing tube or endotracheal tube requires an induced coma and sedation. And you can’t be in an induced coma and on sedation forever.

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