What Happens if You Can’t Come Off the Ventilator in Intensive Care?

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What Happens if You Can’t Come Off the Ventilator in Intensive Care?

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In this week’s blog, I want to answer another frequently asked question from our readers and clients and the question this week is

What happens if you can’t come off the ventilator in intensive care?

Today’s question is a question we get almost daily from our readers and it is clearly an issue that needs to be addressed.

When Patients in Intensive Care can’t be weaned off ventilation, one need to distinguish between not being able to wean off a ventilator and the breathing tube or endotracheal tube or not being able to wean off the ventilator and tracheostomy.

If your loved one can’t be weaned off ventilation and the breathing tube/endotracheal tube, it’s unlikely your loved one can go home with INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME services, except in circumstances where your loved one faces an end of life situation, then we can provide palliative care at home for a “one-way extubation” and help your loved one and your family to have end of life services at home instead of Intensive Care!

Therefore, end of life care can be provided in a much nicer and much more Patient and family friendly environment.

If your loved one isn’t in an end of life situation, but is unable to be weaned off the ventilator and the breathing tube/endotracheal tube, please have a look at the following articles/videos here

How Long Can A Breathing Tube Or An Endotracheal Tube Can Stay In?

HOW LONG SHOULD A PATIENT BE ON A VENTILATOR BEFORE HAVING A TRACHEOSTOMY?

WHAT ARE THE RISKS AND BENEFITS OF A TRACHEOSTOMY?

Why Would A Critically Ill Patient In An Induced Coma Need A Tracheostomy In Intensive Care?

If your loved one however has been ventilated for many days or many weeks and sometimes even many months and is unable to be weaned off the ventilator and the tracheostomy or if it is possible for your loved one to be weaned off the ventilator and the tracheostomy, but it takes much longer to come off the ventilator and the tracheostomy then you and your family should definitely consider bringing your loved one home with INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME.

That’s it. It’s as simple as that.

Your loved one needs to be medically stable as well and needs to be off inotropes/vasopressors.

Anything else can be managed at home.

We can provide Intensive Care At Home services in the home full stop and get your loved one out of a depressing and sterile Intensive Care and hospital environment into the comfort of your own home...

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