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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.
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
Cerebral Palsy and Intensive Care at Home!
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from Intensive Care at Home, where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated patients with tracheostomies, and also where we provide tailor-made solutions for medically complex patients in the community, that otherwise require an intensive care bed. And that means we’re also providing tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units, to save money and resources whilst providing quality care.
In this quick tip video, I want to talk about cerebral palsy, and intensive care as well as cerebral palsy in the community.
So here at Intensive Care at Home, we’re looking after a number of clients in the community with cerebral palsy that are medically very complex and that need 24-hour intensive care nursing at home because otherwise, those clients would be spending 24 hours a day in intensive care.
It would be a burden to the health care system, it would cost a lot of money, but way more important, those clients and their families wouldn’t have any quality of life. Because quality of life really can only be achieved at home where hospital and ICU admissions can be avoided predictably because that’s the service we are providing. We are providing an Intensive Care at Home service, and especially when it comes to cerebral palsy, many of those clients have regular seizures. They need airway management. They often need BiPAP at home. They often need cough assist at home.
These are all nursing skills that can only be provided by intensive care nurses with a minimum of two years intensive care experience. Now, this is backed up by evidence-based and research, where if you look at the Home Mechanical Ventilation Guidelines on our website, at intensivecareathome.com, you will find that after nearly 25 years of Intensive Care at Home nursing, the research clearly shows that the only way someone on a ventilator, tracheostomy, BiPAP, seizure management at home, can be managed is with an intensive care nurse with a minimum of two years ICU experience.
And again, we’re maximizing the quality of life for our clients by providing this high-level service in the community. I argue we are looking after the sickest and highest acuity clients in the community, worldwide really. There’s no other service, as far as I’m aware, that can provide that level of care at home than we provide.
But more importantly, our clients, especially those with cerebral palsy, have a good quality of life at home. In some instances, we are talking about quality of end-of-life as well. But it’s the much-preferred option compared to those clients going in and out of intensive care, which is pretty much what happened with those clients prior to our service providing 24-hour intensive care nursing at home.
So this is my quick tip for today.
Please bear in mind that if you are at home with a loved one that has cerebral palsy and needs high-level nursing care, is at risk of going into intensive care regularly, or is in intensive care, you should definitely contact us here in Australia. The NDIS is funding 24-hour intensive care nursing at home at the TAC, Transport Accident Commission, as well as the DVA, Department of Veterans’ Affairs, and other funding bodies, have an interest in our service because we are basically cutting the cost of an intensive care bed by 50%, and by not having people readmitted into intensive care, we’re also taking the burden of the public and private intensive care units, and provide a win-win situation for all stakeholders really.
So if you have a loved one at home, and you’re not getting enough support, you need intensive care nurses, go to intensivecareathome.com and call us on one of the numbers on the top of the website, or if you have a loved one in intensive care, that is either ventilated, with a tracheostomy, needs BiPAP, CPAP ventilation, has seizures, is medically complex, you should contact us as well. We can help you get your loved one home from intensive care, and we can help you with the funding side of things as well.
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This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com and I’ll 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 minimom 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, Mornington Peninsula, Frankston area, South Gippsland, 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.
Also, we have been part of the Royal Melbourne health accelerator program in the past for innovative healthcare companies.
https://www.thermh.org.au/news/innovation-funding-announced-melbourne-health-accelerator
https://www.melbournehealthaccelerator.com/
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.