My 87-Year-Old Mother is in ICU For 4 Months with Ventilation,Tracheostomy&Dialysis, Can She Go Home

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My 87-Year-Old Mother is in ICU For 4 Months with Ventilation, Tracheostomy & Dialysis, Can She Go 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 at home and where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units at home whilst providing quality services for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies, also otherwise medically complex adults and children at home including Home BIPAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure), Home CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure), home tracheostomy care when adults and children are not ventilated, also Home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition). We also provide IV potassium, IV magnesium infusions at home, as well as IV antibiotic infusions at home. We also provide port management, Hickman’s line management as well as palliative care services at home, and that also includes ventilation weaning at home.

In today’s video, I want to answer a question that has come in from Anita who says,

“Hi Patrik,

My mom is 87 and she ended up with a pneumonia. It’s a long story, but I’ll highlight everything. She’s on a ventilator with a tracheostomy and she can’t be weaned off the ventilator and she also need dialysis intermittently.

She’s been stuck in hospital for 4.5 months and it’s been a very crippling experience. I’m there 24 hours a day. My mom has no quality of life. It’s been such a big toll for me and my mom mentally. Because we live together, we want to go home as quickly as possible. I can’t stand the hospital anymore.

Can Intensive Care at Home help her to take her home and who would be paying for it?”

Well, thank you so much, Anita, for reaching out and for sharing your mom’s, well you’ve mentioned it, crippling situation. I’ve worked in critical care for nearly 25 years and nearly worked in ICU in hospitals, directly for 20 years before I started out with Intensive Care at Home, and I know exactly what you’re talking about. There are so many long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies in ICU that shouldn’t be there, and obviously you have identified that for yourself, that your mom would be much better off at home.

Can Intensive Care at Home help with that? Yes, absolutely. That is bread and butter for us to take someone like your mom home and look after her at home, bring the intensive care unit into your mom’s home, and how is that going to happen?

Well, the first thing that needs to happen is she needs to be off inotropes and vasopressors, but you haven’t mentioned anything there. The next step is you need to want, and we need to engage with the funding body. The reality is that someone is paying $5000, $6000 per bed day for intensive care in the hospital, and that is a lot of money, and your mom is suffering from having no quality of life. You and your family are suffering from having no quality of life. So of course, Intensive Care at Home is a no-brainer and is the next step.

Now, you will be asking, what about dialysis? Well, your mom can have dialysis as an outpatient in a dialysis outpatient clinic. The good news is all of our clients have community access. Your mom won’t be confined just to a bed at home. She will get up; she will get out and about. All of our clients have community access, and she will improve her quality of life just by going out of hospital and going back into your own home and improve her quality of life from there.

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