CAN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS ON A VENTILATOR GO HOME TO DIE?

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CAN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS ON A VENTILATOR GO HOME TO DIE?

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In this week’s BLOG I want to talk about

“CAN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS ON A VENTILATOR GO HOME TO DIE?”

There are very few environments where people are as close to death and dying as in Intensive Care.

Even though the vast majority of critically ill Patients leave Intensive Care alive, people working in Intensive Care and Families who have lost a loved one are almost always touched by a death in ICU!

It’s a very emotional experience for both, health professionals and families!

And yet, we have all seen critically ill Patients on ventilators with tracheostomies who sometimes approach their end of life over many weeks or many months, where the end of life situation is less than ideal and has massive room for improvement!

In many of those situations death should neither be hastened nor should it be delayed!

However the question remains whether Intensive Care is the right environment if a critically ill Patient is approaching their end of life on a ventilator with tracheostomy over sometimesmany weeks and many months?

Recent surveys done by Palliative Care Australia have revealed that 75% of the Australian population want to die at home if given the choice and yet less than 20% of the Australian population actually die at home...

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