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My name is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com, where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies at home with 24-hour ICU trained nurses, where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated adults and children on BiPAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure) and CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) at home without tracheostomy with 24-hour ICU and critical care registered nurses, where we provide tailor-made solutions at home for adults and children with tracheostomies without ventilation with 24/7 ICU trained and critical care trained nurses, where we provide home ventilation and tracheostomy weaning when medically appropriate, home cough assist management, home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition), home IV (intravenous) fluids, IV potassium, IV magnesium, IV antibiotics at home, central line, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line, Hickman’s line and port management at home, where we provide nasogastric tube, nasojejunostomy tube, PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy) and PEJ (Percutaneous Endoscopic Jejunostomy) tube, IDC (Indwelling Catheter) and SPC (Suprapubic Catheter) management at home, as well as palliative care services at home. We also provide Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) support coordination, as well as TAC (Transport Accident Commission) and WorkSafe case management.

 

Now, if your loved one is in ICU and has just failed a weaning trial, you don’t have to work this out alone. Talk to our critical care nursing team and to myself about your options, including whether Intensive Care at Home on a ventilator is possible. You can contact me at intensivecareathome.com, call me on one of the numbers on the top of our website, schedule a call with me through the schedule appointment button, or simply send me an email to [email protected].

 

So, the quick answer to today’s question, “Failed ventilator weaning trial: what happens next, and can my loved one still go home with Intensive Care at Home?” is this. A failed ventilator weaning trial is quite common in ICU and does not automatically mean your loved one will never come off the ventilator, or that they can never go home. Many patients need several attempts. The ICU team should look for and treat the reasons the trial failed, then try again, often with a slower weaning plan or a tracheostomy. If weaning isn’t possible, or isn’t finished in hospital or in ICU, long-term ventilation at home with 24/7 critical care registered nurses can be an option for suitable patients, and weaning can sometimes continue at home when it is medically appropriate.

 

So why am I saying this so confidently, why do I make videos like this, and what makes me qualified to speak about these topics? I have worked in critical care nursing for over 25 years in three different countries, where I worked as a nurse manager in ICU for over 5 years. I successfully set up Intensive Care at Home in Germany. I was part of a group there, Brambring Jaschke, in the early 2000s, where we were pioneers in Germany setting up Intensive Care at Home services, which spread far and wide, before I brought the concept to Australia in 2012. That’s how long we’ve been operating here. Besides that, I’m also running a consulting and advocacy service for families in intensive care, and you can have a look at that at intensivecarehotline.com.

 

Today’s question is one of the most common questions we hear from families who are dealing with what’s happening in ICU, but who are also thinking about Intensive Care at Home. So I want to answer today’s question in detail. It usually goes something like this:

 

“My mom, my dad, my spouse has been on a ventilator in ICU for nearly 3 weeks. Yesterday they tried a breathing trial to see if he could come off the ventilator, and after about an hour or so, they put him or her back on full support. Now the ICU doctors are talking about a tracheostomy, and one doctor even mentioned withdrawing treatment. We’re absolutely shocked. What happens now, and is there any way my mom, dad, spouse, brother or sister could still come home with Intensive Care at Home if all fails?”

 

If that sounds like your situation, keep watching or reading. I’ll explain what a weaning trial is, why it fails, what usually happens next, and what your options are, including going home with Intensive Care at Home.

 

So what is a ventilator weaning trial? Weaning is the process of reducing ventilation support so the patient’s own breathing muscles take over again. A weaning trial, often called a spontaneous breathing trial, is a test where the ventilator support is turned right down, or the patient breathes through a T-piece or a tracheostomy mask, usually for 30 minutes to 2 hours. During the trial, the ICU team watches closely for signs that the patient is coping or struggling.

A trial is usually stopped and full support restarted if the patient shows signs such as:

1. A fast breathing rate, or breathing that becomes shallow and labored.
2. Falling oxygen levels or rising carbon dioxide levels on a blood gas.
3. A big rise in heart rate or blood pressure, or abnormal heart rhythms.
4. Sweating, agitation, distress or reduced alertness.
5. Use of neck and shoulder muscles to breathe, or seesaw breathing.

Stopping a spontaneous breathing trial early is a safety measure. It is not a judgment on your loved one, and it is not the end of the road.

Next, is it normal to fail a weaning trial? Yes. Most ventilated patients come off the ventilator after their first trial, but a significant number do not. International consensus groups in intensive care describe three groups of patients:

1. Simple weaning. The patient passes the first trial and comes off the ventilator.
2. Difficult weaning. The patient needs up to three trials, or up to 7 days from the first trial, to come off the ventilator.
3. Prolonged weaning. The patient fails three or more trials, or needs more than seven days after the first trial.

 

So a failed trial usually moves your loved one into the difficult or prolonged weaning group. It doesn’t mean they will be ventilator dependent for life, but it does mean the plan needs to change, and you need to understand that weaning plan.

 

So why do ventilator weaning trials fail? In my experience, weaning fails for a reason, and often for more than one. The key question to ask the ICU team is, “What do you think caused the trial to fail, and what is being done about it?” Common reasons include:

1. Weak breathing muscles. After days or weeks on a ventilator, the diaphragm and other breathing muscles can weaken. ICU-acquired weakness is very common after a long stay.
2. Heart and fluid problems. Breathing on your own puts extra strain on the heart. Fluid overload or heart failure can cause fluid to build up in the lungs during the trial.
3. Infection and secretions. Pneumonia, thick secretions or a weak cough make breathing much harder work.
4. Sedation and delirium. Too much sedation, or confusion and agitation, can stop a patient from breathing effectively.
5. Nutrition and electrolytes. Poor nutrition and low levels of phosphate, magnesium or potassium can weaken muscles.
6. Underlying lung disease. Conditions such as COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) can make it harder to breathe without support.
7. Neurological or neuromuscular conditions. High spinal cord injuries, motor neurone disease, such as MND (Motor Neurone Disease), Guillain-Barré syndrome, muscular dystrophy and similar conditions affect the nerves and muscles that control breathing. Depending on the condition, weaning may take a long time, may only be partly possible, or may not be possible at all.
8. Anxiety and exhaustion. Fear, poor sleep and fatigue all play a part, especially during or after a long ICU stay. And that’s where home care is so beneficial, because your family member will be at home in their own surroundings, in their own four walls, surrounded by family. That is a much better position to be in, and the research has confirmed that.

 

Some of those causes can be treated, others take time, and some may be permanent. Knowing which ones apply to your loved one tells you a lot about what is possible.

 

So what happens after a failed weaning trial? Every patient is different, and decisions need to be made by the treating team together with the patient and family. But here’s what commonly happens next.

1. Rest, then treat the reversible causes. Usually, long-term ventilated adults and children in ICU are put back on full ventilation support to rest the breathing muscles, often for around 24 hours. The team should then work on anything that can be improved: treating infection, removing extra fluid, reducing sedation, correcting electrolytes, improving nutrition, clearing secretions, and starting physiotherapy.
2. Another trial or a slower weaning plan. Many patients have repeated trials. For patients in prolonged weaning, the team may move to a slower, structured plan. This might mean gradually lowering pressure support, or building up time off the ventilator step by step, for example, short periods on a tracheostomy mask, slowly increasing over days and weeks.
3. A tracheostomy. If weaning is expected to take a long time, the ICU team will often recommend a tracheostomy, but sometimes you need to ask for it as well. A tracheostomy tube is generally speaking more comfortable than a breathing tube through the mouth, often needs less sedation and fewer opiates, makes mouth care and secretion clearance easier, and can make weaning more manageable, because it’s also easier to mobilize patients and get them out of bed. Importantly, it is also usually the route for long-term ventilation at home if weaning is not completed in ICU or in hospital.
4. Non-invasive ventilation after extubation, for selected adults and children on ventilation. Some adults and children can have the breathing tube removed and go straight onto non-invasive ventilation, also known as NIV, such as BiPAP or CPAP, through a face mask. This is only suitable for selected patients, and the treating team will decide whether it is appropriate.
5. A goals of care or family meeting. If weaning is proving difficult, you will likely be invited to a family meeting. Sometimes this includes a discussion about limiting or withdrawing treatment. These are serious conversations. Your loved one’s own values and wishes, and any advance care directive, should be at the center of them. You are entitled to ask the right questions, to ask for time, and to ask for a second opinion.

 

And here’s one of the most important questions that I know you are asking: can my loved one still go home if they fail ventilation weaning? I know for many families, this is the question that matters most. The direct answer is, it depends on your loved one’s medical condition, their wishes, and having the right care, equipment, team and funding in place. But for suitable adults and children, the answer is absolutely yes.

 

Home mechanical ventilation, both invasive ventilation with tracheostomy and non-invasive ventilation such as BiPAP or CPAP, has been used for decades in countries such as Germany, Australia, Austria, Switzerland and France, mainly, and it is all evidence-based. On our website, we publish the evidence-based Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines. The guidelines set out who may be suitable, what equipment is needed, what teams are needed, i.e., 24/7 critical care and ICU trained nurses, and how the transition from ICU to home needs to be managed.

 

According to those guidelines, the right time to plan discharge is when the underlying illness is stable, and when the team, funding, equipment and all necessary resources are secured. The guidelines also set clear minimum standards, including:

1. A nursing team of registered nurses with a minimum of 18 months of intensive care or critical care nursing experience, providing 24/7 ICU nursing at home. Bear in mind, we only select ICU nurses with a minimum of 24 months. So we’re already making the gold standard even better through the staff we are selecting. As a matter of fact, most of our nurses have 8 to 10 years ICU experience and a postgraduate ICU nursing qualification. And I can confidently say we employ hundreds of years of critical care nursing experience combined here at Intensive Care at Home, bringing the highest skill level into the community when it comes to intensive care nursing.
2. A designated specialist nurse with intensive care experience and postgraduate critical care qualifications coordinating the care.
3. A backup ventilator with an external battery for ventilated patients at home, suction, a manual resuscitation bag, spare tracheostomy tubes, and active humidification for tracheostomy ventilation, but also for non-invasive ventilation. You need two suction machines. You need two monitors, so that you have everything in place to make Intensive Care at Home safe.
4. Ongoing medical oversight and 24/7 access to the care team and equipment providers. We work with our own private intensive care specialist, but clinical governance can also come through hospitals directly, from your respiratory physician, from any other ICU consultant, or even from your GP (General Practitioner) if other specialists are involved as well.

 

This is my why. In my view, and with my extensive experience, ventilated patients at home need 24/7 critical care registered nurses: not general registered nurses without ICU experience, not enrolled nurses, and definitely not unqualified disability support workers or carers. I often compare it to flying a plane. You wouldn’t want someone without pilot training in the cockpit. A ventilator, a tracheostomy, and a patient who can deteriorate quickly call for ICU-level skills 24 hours a day at home with Intensive Care at Home.

 

So, can ventilation weaning continue at home? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Where it is medically appropriate and agreed with the treating specialist, weaning from the ventilator, or even from the tracheostomy, can continue at home under a medical plan. Some patients do better in the calm and tranquility of their own home, with their family around them, regular sleep, familiar food and familiar smells, than in a busy ICU where the lights are on 24 hours a day and people are talking 24 hours a day. You control that at home.

 

Unfortunately, not every patient will wean. For example, patients with C1–C2 spinal injuries will probably not wean, with current treatment options available, and no one can promise that. Some patients will need long-term or lifelong ventilation. For those patients, home can still be a place where they live with dignity, privacy and quality of life, rather than staying in ICU for months.

Next, what should you ask for in the medical records? Being informed is how families get a seat at the table. You can request your loved one’s medical records from the hospital. The process differs between states, and between public and private hospitals. The hospital’s health information or freedom of information team can explain it. Useful documents include:

• All ICU charts: ventilation charts and settings, and vital sign charts
• Nursing reports, doctor’s reports and specialist reports
• Weaning trial reports: how long each trial lasted and why it was stopped
• Blood gas results, chest X-ray results, and any scans, such as MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scans or echocardiograms
• Medical and nursing progress notes, physiotherapy notes and dietitian notes
• Medication charts
• Notes and minutes from any family meetings or goals of care discussions

With these medical records, you can ask better questions, understand the plan, and, if you choose, get an independent opinion. And also download your free Failed Weaning Trial Checklist: 12 Questions to Ask the ICU Team Before Any Decision Is Made.

 

So why should you choose Intensive Care at Home for ventilation at home, if it’s appropriate for your or your family member’s situation? At Intensive Care at Home, we have supported long-term ventilated adults and children and their families at home since 2012, all around Australia. Here is what that looks like.

In 2026, and as far as I’m aware, we are the only third-party accredited Intensive Care at Home nursing service in Australia. We have built the policies, the procedures and the intellectual property from scratch. Our quality management system is certified to ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 9001:2015 for the delivery of intensive care nursing services at home, which obviously includes ventilation, tracheostomy, and all the things that I mentioned earlier, and we’re also a registered NDIS provider. You can view our certificates on our accreditation page.

 

Next, critical care registered nurses only. Our clients are cared for by ICU-trained critical care registered nurses, in line with best practice and evidence-based mechanical ventilation guidelines. Like I said, we employ hundreds of years of ICU and critical care nursing experience combined. No other provider employs a higher skill level in the community in Australia.

 

Next, 24/7 ICU nursing care at home in all states and territories in Australia. We provide 24-hour care for invasive ventilation with tracheostomy, non-invasive ventilation such as BiPAP, and tracheostomy care without ventilation, for adults and children.

 

Home ventilation weaning, where it is medically appropriate and supported by the treating specialist, which may include tracheostomy weaning.

 

Discharge planning support. We work with the ICU, the treating doctors, equipment providers and funders to plan a safe transition home.

 

Next, funding experience. We are registered with NDIS, TAC, WorkSafe and DVA (Department of Veterans’ Affairs), and can talk you through private health fund options, Department of Health funding options, hospital funding, and other funding options. We also provide Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS support coordination, as well as TAC and WorkSafe case management.

 

One of the things I want to be upfront about is that funding can be one of the biggest barriers for families, or at least is often perceived to be. But it is often only a perceived barrier, because once you’ve taken the first steps and talked to the right people, there are options available for you. Ask us early, because funding has to be in place before a safe discharge can happen. Just keep the financial mechanics in mind as well: an ICU bed costs between $5,000 and $10,000 per day, and Intensive Care at Home costs approximately 50% of that. So any funding body really has an interest in cutting that cost by 50%.

 

So just before we wrap this up, I’ll go through some frequently asked questions for today’s topic.

 

How many weaning trials can a patient fail? There’s no fixed number. Some patients pass on the second or third attempt. Others need a slow weaning plan over weeks, sometimes months. Failing three or more trials, or still being ventilated more than 7 days after the first trial, is usually called prolonged weaning.

 

Does a failed weaning trial mean my loved one is dying? Not necessarily. A failed trial means their body isn’t ready to breathe without support yet. What it means for the future depends on the underlying cause, which is why you should ask the ICU team to explain it to you.

 

Is a tracheostomy the next step after failed weaning? Often it is, if weaning is expected to take a long time. A tracheostomy can make weaning easier and more comfortable, and it is usually the route for long-term ventilation at home with Intensive Care at Home. The decision should be made with the treating team, with your loved one’s wishes in mind.

 

Can someone on a ventilator live at home? Yes. Suitable patients can live at home on invasive tracheostomy ventilation or non-invasive BiPAP ventilation, provided they’re medically stable and the right 24-hour Intensive Care at Home nursing team, equipment and funding are in place. See our best practice and evidence-based mechanical home ventilation guidelines for the details.

Can weaning continue at home? Yes, where it is medically appropriate and agreed with the treating specialist, weaning can sometimes continue at home under a medical treatment plan. It’s not suitable for everyone, and outcomes can’t be guaranteed, of course.

 

Who pays for ventilation nursing at home in Australia? Depending on your loved one’s situation, funding may come from the NDIS, TAC, WorkSafe, DVA, a compensation claim, private health insurance, departments of health, private funds, etc. People over 65 who are not NDIS eligible often face a funding gap, so it’s important to start these conversations early, and we can help with those conversations. We started in 2012, when there were no funding avenues available, and we created funding out of thin air. Now there are more funding avenues available, so you should be optimistic about funding options here.

What if the doctors want to withdraw treatment? Ask for a family meeting. Ask the team to explain their reasoning and the prognosis, and make sure your loved one’s wishes and any advance care directives are considered. You can ask for time, for a second opinion and for advocacy, and we can help with the advocacy. Go and check out our sister site, intensivecarehotline.com.

 

The bottom line is this. A failed ventilator weaning trial is hard news, but it is very often the start of a new plan, not the end of the story. Ask why the trial failed. Ask what’s being done about it. Get the medical records, and make sure your loved one’s wishes are heard. And if weaning is going to take a long time, or isn’t possible, know that going home on a ventilator with 24/7 ICU and critical care registered nurses with Intensive Care at Home is an option.

 

Now, if you need help right now with Intensive Care at Home, go to intensivecareathome.com. For information about ICU, a second opinion, or consulting and advocacy, go to intensivecarehotline.com. Call me on one of the numbers on the top of our website, or you can call me on my mobile phone, 041 094 2230. You can also book a call with me by clicking the schedule appointment button, or simply send me an email to [email protected].

 

With Intensive Care at Home, we are currently operating all around Australia, in all states and territories. And if you are watching this and you are in the US, in Canada, in the UK, in India, or anywhere around the world, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, and you need help with Intensive Care at Home, we want to hear from you as well. We have some international phone numbers on our website too.

Just keep in mind that today’s video and article is general information only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Every patient’s situation is different. Please discuss your loved one’s care with their treating medical team.

 

With all of that said, with Intensive Care at Home, we are currently sending our critical care nurses into the home 24 hours a day. Therefore, we are providing a genuine alternative to long-term stay in intensive care for:

• Ventilation
• Tracheostomy
• Home BiPAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure), Home CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) (https://intensivecareathome.com/quality-life-nursing-services-adults-children-requiring-non-invasive-mask-ventilation-cpap-bipap-andor-high-flow-oxygen-therapy/) ventilation without tracheostomy
• Tracheostomy care without ventilation
• Home TPN (https://intensivecareathome.com/tpntotal-parenteral-nutrition-administration-picc-line-central-line-care-community/)
• Home IV potassium
• Home IV magnesium
• Home IV antibiotics
• Home IV fluids

We’re providing:

• Cough assist management at home
• Ventilation weaning management at home
• Central line (http://intensivecarehotline.com/central-venous-lines/), PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line, Hickman’s line as well as port management at home
• Nasogastric tube, nasojejunostomy tube, PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy) (https://intensivecarehotline.com/your-loved-ones-treatment/peg-percutaneous-endoscopic-gastrostomy/), PEJ (Percutaneous Endoscopic Jejunostomy) tube management at home
• IDC (Indwelling Catheter) and SPC (Suprapubic Catheter) management at home
• Palliative care services at home

 

We’re also sending our critical care nurses into the home for emergency department bypass services. We have done so successfully as part of the Western Sydney Local Health District’s In Touch program, saving approximately $2,000 per patient that we keep at home instead of them going into an emergency department.

 

That also means we’re in a position to cut the cost of an ICU bed by around 50%. An intensive care bed costs between $5,000 to $10,000 per bed day depending on location. Intensive Care at Home costs approximately 50% of that, and we’re freeing up the most sought-after bed in the hospital, which is the ICU bed. Most importantly, we’re improving the quality of life for patients and their families, which is a win-win situation for all stakeholders.

 

Our Coverage and Accreditation

With Intensive Care at Home, we’re currently operating all around Australia, in all major capital cities, as well as in all regional and rural areas. We are an NDIS approved service provider all around Australia, TAC (Transport Accident Commission) and WorkSafe in Victoria as well as the Department of Veterans Affairs all around Australia.

 

We’re also ISO 9001:2015 accredited. Our clients and we as a service provider have also received funding through public hospitals, private health funds as well as departments of health.

 

We are the only service provider in Australia that has achieved third-party accreditation for Intensive Care at Home nursing in 2025. We have been achieving this high level of accreditation since 2012. No other provider in Australia has achieved the Intensive Care at Home level of accreditation in the community and has created more intellectual property when it comes to Intensive Care at Home nursing than we have.

 

This puts us in a position to employ hundreds of years of critical care nursing experience combined in the community. No other service provider in 2025 employs a higher skill level in the community than we do. And that enables us to look after the highest acuity adults and children in the community in Australia safely.

 

If You Need Help

If you’re at home already and you’re watching this or you’re stuck in an ICU and you realize that you don’t have the right level of support, I can give you many examples where we helped clients with funding, how we advocate for funding. We had to advocate successfully for funding from our first case study to many other case studies where we had to advocate successfully for funding with the right evidence of course because it is crystal clear that disability support workers for example or registered nurses without ICU experience cannot look after ventilated clients at home whether adults or children with or without a tracheostomy and it’s simply dangerous and negligent.

 

There are plenty of examples where clients with support worker models or even RN (registered nurse) models without ICU experience have died at home and I have evidence to back up everything that I’m saying here because it’s a bit like flying the airplane with a cabin crew instead of the pilot and it could simply be deadly.

 

This can be avoided by having simply 24-hour critical care nurses at home because our clients are at high risk of medical emergencies or worse without critical care nurses 24 hours. This is actually also evidence-based in the community and is documented in our evidence-based Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines on our website at intensivecareathome.com.

 

Think about it: in an intensive care unit in a hospital, you wouldn’t have support workers or general registered nurses looking after a critical care patient on a ventilator with a tracheostomy. So why would anyone in their right mind do that in a home care environment where there are fewer resources?

 

Clients that have found us have been at home long-term predictably and permanently with critical care nurses. Their alternative would have been to either die or stay in ICU long-term, and our clients don’t go back to ICU. They stay at home permanently and predictably and the insurance bodies save half of the cost of an ICU. But it’s a win-win situation all around.

 

We can do the same for you if you’re stuck in ICU or if you’re not safe at home, which includes the advocacy for funding and the network that goes along with it. We have always successfully advocated for our clients or we have the network to successfully advocate for you and for your family member, otherwise we wouldn’t be in business. The same again is applicable for those stuck in an ICU which is similar to many of our, if not most of our cases.

 

Our Support Coordination Services

This is also why we are providing Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS support coordination. We have a team of experienced NDIS support coordinators, and they have a wealth of knowledge. We’re also providing TAC case management and WorkSafe case management in Victoria with Lucy McCotter.

 

If you’re an NDIS support coordinator or a case manager or a social worker from another organization or a hospital watching this and you’re looking for nursing care for your participants, please reach out to us as well. If you’re looking for funding for nursing care for your participants and you don’t know how to go about it and how to advocate for it, what evidence to provide, I encourage you to reach out to us as well. We have the network to make that happen. We will help you with the right level of funding and with the right level of advocacy.

 

We’re also providing NDIS specialist nursing assessments done by critical care nurses with a legal nurse consulting background.

 

Join Our Team

If you are a critical care nurse and you’re looking for a career change and you want to join a very progressive, dynamic, successful, and high-performing team of critical care nurses in the community, we are employing hundreds of years of critical care nursing experience combined.

 

If you’re looking for a career change, we’re currently hiring for jobs for critical care nurses in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Albury-Wodonga, Bendigo, Geelong, Warragul, and also in Wyelangta in Victoria.

 

If you have worked in critical care nursing for a minimum of two years, adult ICU, pediatric ICU, ED and you have already completed a postgraduate critical care nursing qualification, we will be absolutely delighted hearing from you.

I have a disclaimer though: Because we are offering tailor-made solutions for our clients which includes regular staff, our clients do also want the same staff coming over and over again because they are so vulnerable and so special. That’s why we need regular, reliable staff.

 

If you’re looking for agency work where you can come and go, this will not be the right fit for you. We’re looking for consistency and our clients are looking for consistency. So please only apply with us if you can give us regular and consistent availabilities for shifts and you’re really keen on building relationships with us and with our clients. Reliability is also a must.

 

For Medical Professionals and Healthcare Executives

If you’re an intensive care specialist or an ED specialist, we also want to hear from you. We’re currently expanding our medical team as well.

 

We can also help you eliminate your bed blocks in your ICU and in your ED for your long-term patients or for your regularly readmitting patients with our critical care nursing team at home. We’re here to help to take the pressure off your ICU and ED beds. In most cases, you won’t even pay for it. Even if you do pay for it, it is so much more cost-effective than what you’re paying for in ICU and ED settings, and you get the same level of care and simply more patient and family satisfaction because you also want to partner with your consumers.

 

If you are a hospital executive watching this, we can help you free up your ICU and ED beds.

 

International Support

If you’re in the U.S. or in the UK and you’re watching this and you need help, we want to hear from you as well. We can help you there privately with one-on-one consulting and with hiring nurses privately.

 

Once again, our website is intensivecareathome.com. Call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or simply send us an email to [email protected].

 

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Thank you so much for watching.

 

This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com and I’ll talk to you in a few days.

 

Take care for now.