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Hi it’s Patrik Hutzel from INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated Adults & 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 patients and medically complex patients at home, including home TPN.
In last week’s blog, I talked about,
You can check out last week’s blog by clicking on the link below this video:
In today’s blog post, I want share a quick tip and case study on how we can help clients.
A 64-year-old Man with Motor Neuropathy Being Looked After by Support Workers at Home Ended Up in ICU with Aspiration Pneumonia!
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated, adults and children with tracheostomies also for BiPAP or CPAP ventilation. And otherwise medically complex patients that require an intensive care nurse at home. So here is a quick tip and case study on how we can help clients.
We are currently having an inquiry from a 64-year-old man with motor neuropathy. A fairly long-standing, premedical history, with ischemic heart disease, with hypertension. Also, having had a heart attack in the past, and he’s had recurring cases of pneumonia.
And prior to this inquiry, he’s been having nocturnal non-invasive ventilation BiPAP for his motor neuropathy. He’s been looked after by support workers at home which is dangerous in and of itself if someone is on a ventilator. Because if someone is on a ventilator, they need an intensive care nurse, 24 hours a day.
And that is documented in the evidence-based Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines that you’ll find on our website at intensivecareathome.com.
To cut the long story short, the client ended up in ICU with an aspiration pneumonia, no surprises there. Again, if someone is on a ventilator at home, they need intensive care nurses, 24 hours a day. Not even a general registered nurse because they wouldn’t know how to look after someone on a ventilator. They need actually an intensive care nurse with a minimum of two years ICU experience, as again, documented in the evidence-based mechanical home ventilation guidelines.
So, this poor client is now stuck in ICU for about six months. He can’t go home yet because he hasn’t got the funding yet, but we are working on that with him and then he can go home with our service, Intensive Care at Home. But it should have never come to this in the first place, because now of the aspiration pneumonia, he’s on BiPAP ventilation almost 24 hours a day. And he might need a tracheostomy that might be the next step.
But cutting the long story short, for someone like this gentleman, there need to be intensive care nurses at home 24 hours a day funded by the NDIS, by the National Disability Insurance Scheme. This is for our viewers in Australia.
If you are in Australia, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, you should definitely contact us on one of the numbers on the top of our website. If you’re in a similar situation, or if you have a family member in a similar situation, you should definitely contact us on one of the numbers on the top of our website, because we can help you obtain the funding. We can help you go home and get the right care for you and your family.
That is my quick tip for today.
Now, again, if you have a loved one in intensive care and you want to go home, or if you are at home and you don’t have sufficient support. And you are going back to ICU all the time or your loved one is going back to ICU all the time, or if you want to know about funding, especially about the NDIS or any other funding avenues here in Australia, please contact us on one of the numbers on the top of our website at intensivecareathome.com or simply send us an email to [email protected].
Also, check out our membership for families in intensive care at intensivecaresupport.org.
If you need a medical records review for your loved one, or for yourself in ICU specifically, contact us as well. We provide that type of service.
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This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com, and I will talk to you in a few days.
Take care.
Now, if you have a loved one in intensive care and you want to go home with our service intensive care at home and if you want to find out how to get funding for our service and how it all works, please contact us on one of the numbers on the top of our website, or send me an email to [email protected]. That’s Patrik, just with a K at the end.
Please also have a look at our case studies because there we highlight more about what we can do for clients, how clients can live at home with ventilation and tracheostomies and you can look at our case studies as well at our service section.
Intensive care at home Case studies
And if you are at home already and you need support for your critically ill loved one at home, and you have insufficient support or insufficient funding, please contact us as well. We can help you with all of that.
And if you are an intensive care nurse or a pediatric intensive care nurse with a minimum of two years, ICU or pediatric ICU experience, and you ideally have a critical care certificate, please contact us as well. Check out our career section on our website. We are currently hiring ICU and pediatric ICU nurses for clients in the Melbourne metropolitan area, Northern suburbs, Sunbury, Bendigo, Mornington Peninsula, Bittern, Patterson Lakes, Frankston area, South Gippsland, Drouin, Warragul, Trida, Trafalgar and Moe as well as Wollongong in New South Wales.
www.intensivecareathome.com/careers
So, we are also an NDIS, TAC (Victoria) and DVA (Department of Veteran affairs) approved community service provider in Australia. Also have a look at our range of full-service provisions.
Thank you for watching this video and thank you for tuning into this week’s blog.
This is Patrik from Intensive Care at Home, and I’ll see you again next week in another update.