My Mother's Been in ICU Ventilated & Tracheostomy with End Stage Lung Cancer, Can She Go Home?

https://intensivecareathome.com/my-mothers-been-in-icu-ventilated-tracheostomy-with-end-stage-lung-cancer-can-she-go-home/

My Mother's Been in ICU Ventilated & Tracheostomy with End Stage Lung Cancer, Can She Go Home?

Book your free 15-minute phone consultation here
http://intensivecarehotline.com/scheduling-appointment/

Call directly 24/7
+1 415-915-0090 USA/Canada
+44 118 324 3018 UK
+6141 094 2230 Australia

Email [email protected]

Get 1:1 consulting and advocacy
1:1 phone counselling
http://intensivecarehotline.com/one-on-one-counselling/

Become a member for families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care
https://intensivecarehotline.com/intensivecaresupport-org-membership/

Immediate action steps http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-take-charge/immediate-action-steps/
https://intensivecareathome.com

And if you need a medical record review, click on the link and we can help you with reviewing your loved one’s medical records while they’re in ICU.
https://intensivecarehotline.thrivecart.com/review-of-medical-records/

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ICUhotline
Twitter: https://twitter.com/icuhotline

Song: Jarico - Island Music
supported by@FreeBackgroundMusicForCreators
#BackgroundMusicWithoutLimitations
https://bit.ly/2XoXFnb

#icu
#intensivecare
#criticalcare

If you want to know if you can take your 74-year-old mother home from intensive care with a ventilator and tracheostomy with stage 4 lung cancer, stay tuned! I will answer that question for you today.

My name is 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 with tracheostomies, otherwise medically complex adults and children at home including Home TPN (total parenteral nutrition), Home BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), Home CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) ventilation, also home tracheostomy care for adults and children that are not ventilated. Also, we provide IV potassium infusions, IV magnesium infusions at home, and IV antibiotics. We also provide port management, central line management, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line management, Hickman’s line management as well as palliative care services at home and we also provide ventilation weaning at home.

We also send our critical care nurses into the home for emergency department (ED) bypass services so that fewer patients have to go into the emergency department.

So, in today’s video, I want to talk about a conversation that I had with a potential client this week who said, “Hey, my 74-year-old mother is in ICU at the moment. She has stage 4 lung cancer. She had radiation and chemotherapy. The growth of the cancer has been stopped for now, but she couldn’t be weaned off the ventilator and the breathing tube, and she now has a tracheostomy.”

And he’s asking if we can take her home with Intensive Care at Home. Of course, that is what we do with Intensive Care at Home, that is bread and butter for us taking long-term ventilated patients home from intensive care, which includes palliative care. Because it sounds like this particular client’s mother may need palliative care, and if she does need palliative care, she certainly doesn’t want to have palliative care in an intensive care unit. She wants to spend as much time with her family as possible, which makes a lot of sense.

But also from an intensive care perspective, ICU beds are in high demand. They are highly sought after. They are the most expensive bed in a hospital, costs $5000 to $6000 per bed day. With Intensive Care at Home, we are cutting the cost of an intensive care bed by approximately 50% whilst patients get the same level of care at home, and it provides a win-win situation. On top of that, we are freeing up a highly sought after ICU bed. Once again, it’s a win-win situation. But more importantly for our client and their family, quality of life, or in this situation, quality of end of life will improve drastically.

You have a team of highly specialized intensive care nurses coming into your home rather than you staying in intensive care forever in a day. Having your family around 24 hours a day in an intensive care unit, you might as well have your family around in the comfort of your own home.

Continue reading at: https://intensivecareathome.com/my-mothers-been-in-icu-ventilated-tracheostomy-with-end-stage-lung-cancer-can-she-go-home/