Another Ventilated Client Death in the Community Due to Support Workers Instead of ICU Nurses!

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Another Ventilated Client Death in the Community Due to Support Workers Instead of ICU Nurses!

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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 care for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies at home, otherwise medically complex adults and children at home, which includes home BIPAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure), home CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure), and home tracheostomy care for adults and children that are not ventilated, Home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition), home IV potassium infusions, home IV magnesium infusions, as well as home IV antibiotics. We also provide port management, central line management, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line management, as well as Hickman’s line management and we also provide palliative care services at home.

We are also sending our critical care nurses into the home for emergency department bypass services as we have done so successfully in the past for the Western Sydney Local Area Health District, their in-touch program.

So, this week, we hosted our own networking event in Sydney and there’s a YouTube live on our channel where you can watch the networking event and you can watch some of the things that we discussed, you can hear more about the history of Intensive Care at Home and also about our operations in Sydney.

Now, interestingly enough in the networking event, we brought stakeholders of the industry together that have a vested interest in bringing quality services into the community when it comes to long-term ventilation and tracheostomy as a genuine alternative to a long-term stay in intensive care.

Now, one of my business associates there was breaking some news to me and I’m not going to mention names here. But the reality is that I’ve been publicly saying it for many years that adults and children in the community have died on a ventilator with the tracheostomy because either support workers or even general registered nurses without intensive care nursing experience could not manage medical emergency for ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies in the community and therefore, people have died.

Now, like I said at the industry event, one of my business associates was telling me that another death has occurred just last week in Australia because a support worker apparently went out with a ventilated client didn’t take a spare battery with them when they went out with a ventilator, which should be common sense. They had no emergency equipment with them and the patient, or the client died.

So that’s another patient, that’s at least 8 patients now in the last 6, 7, or 8 years that we know of that have died in the community because no evidence-based services were provided to them.

So, what do I mean with evidence-based services? So, what I mean by that is when you go to our website intensivecareathome.com, you will find the section, the Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines and you will find that on the evidence-based mechanical home ventilation guidelines, it says that only critical care nurses with a minimum of two years critical care nursing experience can safely look after ventilated and tracheostomy clients in the community, that includes tracheostomy clients without ventilation, that includes ventilated clients without a tracheostomy.

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