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Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com, where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term, ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies and also for patients on BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), which means non-invasive ventilation. And also where we provide home care for complex adults and children including Home TPN (total parenteral nutrition), Home IV infusions, Home IV potassium, and electrolyte infusions and so forth.

There’s really nothing we can’t do at home when it comes to long-term intensive care patients. But we also provide palliative care at home for intensive care patients. And we provide obviously quality care for our clients because we are third party accredited for Intensive Care at Home.

Now, in today’s video blog, I want to keep it reasonably short, but I thought I needed to address this as a matter of urgency because I actually had a phone call last week from a hospital discharge manager in a big hospital in Sydney. And the hospital discharging manager asked me, “Well, I’ve just heard about your service. Do you do tracheostomy care at home?” And she said, “because we’re finding it very difficult discharging some of our adult and pediatric clients into the community because we can’t find a service provider who can send actually tracheostomy competent nurses into the home.”

And I said, “Yes, of course, we can.” That’s what we’ve been doing for the last 10 years now. And we have been doing it very successfully by sending intensive care nurses and critical care nurses into the home for our mainly long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomy.

But of course, we also have clients at home that are not ventilated and have a tracheostomy and still need the critical care nurse 24 hours a day because of the tracheostomy, which is an artificial airway, by the way. And it requires specialist skills to manage an artificial airway such as the tracheostomy because the risk of airway blockage, of tracheostomy decannulation, or accidental tracheostomy decannulation is real. And if it does happen and if you don’t have an intensive care nurse there, people have died, and that is very unfortunate because of that a hospital discharge is only safe if you go home with 24-hour intensive care nurses with a third party accredited Intensive Care at Home nursing service like we are.

As far as I’m aware in 2023 we are the only Intensive Care at Home nursing service in Australia that has third-party accreditation. Currently, we are operating all around Australia. We are an NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) approved nursing service provider. But we also work with the TAC (Transport Accident Commission) in Victoria, with iCare in New South Wales, with NIISQ (National Injury Insurance Scheme in Queensland), as well as with the DVA, the Department of Veteran Affairs. We have also received funding through Departments of Health and public hospitals. So one way or another, if you’re watching this and you’re wondering how can you go about funding, please contact us one way or another. We can help you with how to obtain funding for you and for your family so that you can leave hospital, leave intensive care and stay home predictably. So you don’t have to go back. That’s the promise of our service anyway.

Also, we also provide NDIS specialist support coordination, especially if you’re struggling with funding. If you think that your current NDIS support coordinator is not advocating for you for nursing care, for example, then you should definitely contact us. It’s bread and butter for us.

And also if you are at home already and you’re struggling with support if you don’t have the right support, especially if your loved one is ventilated or if you yourself watching this, you are ventilated, have a tracheostomy, whatever the case may be and you don’t get the right support; you’re bouncing back into hospital all the time or back into ICU, you should contact us. Our clients, generally speaking, don’t go back to ICU at hospital because we bring the intensive care into the home and maintain an improved quality of life at home. All of our clients have community access. Without any exception, we have exceptional teams working with our clients that improve your quality of life and still make sure you have community access, you can go out, you can maintain your interests, your hobbies and so forth.

Now, if you are an NDIS support coordinator watching this and you have needs for your clients, for nursing care, but you don’t know how to go about the funding for nursing care. If you need us to write an NDIS nursing assessment, if you need us to help you with the advocacy side of things, please contact us. We have helped so many families and our clients with the advocacy side of things.

If you are an intensive care nurse watching this and you are looking for a career change, please contact us as well. We are currently offering jobs in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane for CCRNS with a minimum of two years at CCRN experience. Please contact us.

And if you are a nurse manager in ICU or in a hospital and you have bed blocks for long-term ventilated patients, tracheostomy, Home TPN, please contact us. We can help you take your patients home, improve their quality of life and more importantly, help you with freeing up your hospital and your ICU beds.

If you’re an intensive care specialist and you’re watching this and you have long-term patients in ICU. You should contact us as well for the same, helping you manage your bed blocks and improve the quality of life for your patients and their families.

And if you’re an intensive care specialist and you’re looking for a career change, please contact us as well. We are currently also expanding our medical team with Intensive Care at Home. If you’re a hospital executive watching this and you want to manage your exit blocks in ICU and in hospitals better and free up some of your beds with NDIS funding or other funding avenues. Please contact us as well. We can help you one way or another.

Now, thank you so much for watching this video.

Now we also, as I said, we also provide NDIS nursing assessments. And if you like my videos, subscribe to my YouTube channel for regular updates for families with Intensive Care at Home and intensive care, click the like button, click the notification bell, share the video with your friends and families and comment below what you want to see next or what questions and insights you have from this video.

Thanks for watching.

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

Take care for now.