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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 to answer a question from one of our clients and the question today is
Dad Has Motor Neurone Disease & Can’t Come Off the Ventilator in ICU. Can We Get Him Home with Intensive Care at Home?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies and otherwise medically complex patients. And where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality care.
Today, I want to answer a question from a subscriber and Jennifer asks, she says, “My 65-year-old dad has been diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) also known as motor neurone disease in the last six months. Unfortunately, he deteriorated so quickly that he’s now in intensive care and he’s on a ventilator and he’s had a tracheostomy because the intensive care team is saying that he will most likely never come off the ventilator and that he can’t be weaned.” And now, he’s been stuck in intensive care for about three months. And Jennifer wants to take her father home so he can have Intensive Care at Home, which makes perfect sense considering that intensive care is not the right place for someone long-term. Especially if they’re on a ventilator and a tracheostomy, there are better ways to look after these patients.
So, Jennifer here is my advice. I know you mentioned you are in Melbourne, Australia. You should be contacting us directly and then we can look into funding streams for your father. And then we can look how we can take your father home from intensive care. It’s bread and butter for us. We have many clients at home with MND or Motor Neurone Disease that have a tracheostomy and a ventilator. And we have set this up before successfully. Some of our clients have been at home now for quite a number of years where we initially transitioned them home from intensive care and we can do the same for your father.
So, we are setting up like a mini-ICU at home. We will be providing a 24-hour nursing care roster exclusively with intensive care nurses. We are providing services around the Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines, which you can find on our website at intensivecareathome.com, which means anyone at home on a ventilator with a tracheostomy has to be looked after by an intensive care nurse with a minimum of two years intensive care nursing experience. The average nurse on our books probably has more than 8 or 10 years of ICU nursing experience. We are now employing hundreds of years of intensive care nursing experience in our business that gives us the know-how, the skills, the intellectual property to take patients home from intensive care directly, and literally forge out a new pathway for those clients with a much better quality of life, as opposed to having them in intensive care.
So, I hope that helps Jennifer to answer your question.
Check out intensivecareathome.com for more information, simply call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or send us an email to [email protected], that is [email protected].
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Thanks for watching.
This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com and I will talk to you in a few days.
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.