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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
How to Go from Hospital ICU to INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME, the Discharge Process!
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from Intensive Care At Home where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated patients with tracheostomy and where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units to save money and resources whilst providing quality care.
In this quick tip for families in intensive care but also for intensive care units, I want to focus on how we transition ventilated patients with tracheostomy, adults and children home from intensive care. Let’s dive right into it.
The best case scenario is that we start actually with doing some shifts with our team, with a client in intensive care so we can get to know them, can get to know their routine, can get to know their day to day medical and nursing needs. But more importantly, focusing on the routine that a client wants to work with once they’re going home. It gives us time to get to know the client, get to know the family and work with the intensive care team closely towards a discharge home. Also gives us a little bit of time to prepare the home with the equipment that is needed. But at the same time, we have taken clients, adults, and children home from intensive care literally overnight.
And given that we are employing hundreds of years of intensive care experience, we are in a position to do so, but the best case scenario is really to do a transition period over, let’s just say three to four weeks, where we start doing some shifts in intensive care with our staff and then transition slowly but surely to a home care environment where we then provide 24 hours intensive home nursing care where we substitute the intensive care bed in a more holistic and family friendly environment at home.
That’s my quick tip for today.
Go and check out intensivecareathome.com.
If you have a loved one in intensive care and you need help for home care, especially with ventilation, tracheostomy, home TPN, but also with BiPAP or CPAP ventilation, check out intensivecareathome.com. Call us on one of the numbers on the top of the website.
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Take care for now.
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, 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.