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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 and children with tracheostomy and where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units, whilst it’s providing quality services for long-term, ventilated adults and children and medically complex adults and children at home including Home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition), BiPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) ventilation and tracheostomy care.
Now, in today’s video, I want to answer a question from Maura. Maura says, “Mom had a laryngectomy 27 years ago due to throat cancer. Mom is now 72 years old.
My mom will be discharged from hospital in approximately two months but will need tracheostomy care and she will be permanently on BiPAP due to COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). My mom had a double leg below the knee amputation in April. We are looking to use Intensive Care at Home to get my mom out of ICU as quickly as possible.”
Now, I’m very sorry Maura to hear what your mom is going through there. It looks like she was very independent before this hospital admission. Even with the tracheostomy and very few people at home can be independent with the tracheostomy. But now it looks like she’s coming to a point where she needs 24-hour specialized nursing care, especially since she’s on a ventilator on BiPAP with a tracheostomy. So, you have come to the right place.
I mean, this sounds like it’s bread and butter for us. This is what we do all day, every day. And we can, bring the intensive care into the home rather than your mom spending the next few months in ICU. So you have absolutely come to the right place.
What we’ll do is we’ll start working on the funding with you because she will need 24-hour nursing funding, which will be approximately half of the cost of an intensive care bed in a hospital. So, it’s a win-win for everyone. And it’ll free up the ICU bed, but more importantly, it improves the quality of life for your mom and it will improve your quality of life because it sounds to me like you are spending day and night in intensive care with your mom. And that’s certainly not a good position to be in.
Then we’ll start setting up your home with the equipment that’s needed. And also select a team of intensive care nurses that want to work with your mom. And, you are also involved in the selection process when we start hiring.
So, I hope that answers your questions and helps you to be confident in taking the next steps. This is bread and butter for us. I’d love to hear more from you. Please contact us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or send us an email to [email protected].
Now, if you have a family member in a similar situation, please contact us at intensivecareathome.com, on one of the numbers on the top of our website or send us an email to [email protected].
If you are at home already and you have insufficient support or you have regular hospital readmissions, regular ICU unit readmissions because you don’t have the 24-hour intensive care nurses coming to you for ventilation, tracheostomy, BiPAP, CPAP or you need Home TPN. Please contact us as well.
If you are an NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) support coordinator and if you’re looking for nursing care for your NDIS participants, please contact us as well. If you are unsure how to obtain NDIS funding for nursing care for ventilation, tracheostomy, please contact us as well. We can help you with the advocacy. We are very experienced on that end.
If you are an intensive care nurse, a critical care nurse with a minimum of two years CCRN experience, we want to hear from you. We currently have jobs in Melbourne, Sydney and in Brisbane. We operate all around Australia. We are a TAC (Transport Accident Commission) in Victoria, DVA (Department of Veteran Affairs), ICare, NIISQ (National Injury Insurance Scheme in Queensland) approved and NDIS is of course approved service provider.
We also receive funding from the Department of Health directly at times and also from public hospitals at times.
And if you are an intensive care specialist and you’re looking for a career change, we want to hear from you as well. We are currently expanding our medical team as well.
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Thank you so much for watching.
This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com, and I will talk to you in a few days.
Take care for now.