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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 tracheostomy at home where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units at home whilst providing quality services for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies. Also, otherwise medically complex adults and children at home including Home BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), Home CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), also home tracheostomy care when adults and children are not ventilated. We also provide Home TPN (total parenteral nutrition) which is home intravenous nutrition. We provide IV potassium, IV magnesium infusions at home, as well as IV antibiotic infusions at home. This also includes port management, central line management, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line management, Hickman’s line management, as well as palliative care at home, and that also includes ventilation weaning at home.

We also send our critical care nurses into the home for emergency bypass services which we’ve done for the Western Sydney Local Area Health District. In touch program is part of a successful tender in the past where our nurses avoid clients to go back to emergency departments.

Now today, I have an email from Bianca who says,

“Hi Patrik,

I have my dad in ICU on a ventilator with the tracheostomy. All they can talk about is what date should we take off the ventilator and move him to palliative care? The palliative care people are all over me. I don’t want that for my dad and now I have decided I want to take him home. Is this possible with Intensive Care at Home?”

Well, Bianca, I’m very sorry to hear what you are going through. I have worked in intensive care and critical care for nearly 25 years, and I spent a good proportion of that time in ICU as a nurse. One thing that drove me to setting up Intensive Care at Home is simply that I think palliative care, especially for long term intensive care patient, would be much better provided at home. We have certainly done that successfully with Intensive Care at Home, taking patients home for palliative care or for ventilation weaning.

But in your situation, it sounds to me like your dad might come to the end of his life. I’m not sure you haven’t shared all the information. But irregardless, instead of moving him to palliative care in a hospital and ending life support, you might as well take him home.

It sounds to me like ICU is pretty determined, maybe even desperate to empty the ICU bed that costs them a lot of money or cost the insurer a lot of money, or they probably are in need of the ICU bed.

Now, irregardless of that, we can take your dad home and provide the much-needed improvement of quality of life for your dad or quality of end of life for your dad at home.

How does it work? Well, we can help you set up the home with all the equipment that is needed, whether it’s the ventilator, backup ventilator, suction machines, monitors, hospital bed, hoist or a lifting machine, emergency equipment, and all the rest of it and improve his quality of life or quality of end of life at home.

More importantly, also improve quality of life for you and your family because you are probably spending day and night in intensive care and you’re probably sick and tired of it. You might also getting tired of the negativity there and wanting your dad pass away in ICU or in palliative care, which doesn’t sound to me like you are prepared to do and that’s a good thing that you stand up for your dad. You know what he wants, you know your dad best. It will be a win-win situation taking him home.

Whoever’s funding the ICU bed, the cost of an ICU bed goes down by 50%. You and your dad can be at home, be with your family, and ICU can also free up a bed and can use it for someone in need of high acuity, critical care. Once again, it’s a win-win situation.

Now, if you have a loved one in a similar situation, reach out to us here at intensivecareathome.com and we can help you with Intensive Care at Home. We’re sending ICU nurses into your home. We are third-party accredited as well as NDIS accredited.

With Intensive Care at Home, we are currently operating all around Australia in all major capital cities as well as in all regional and rural areas.

We are an NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) accredited service provider. We are also a TAC (Transport Accident Commission) and WorkSafe approved service provider in Victoria, iCare in New South Wales, NIISQ (National Injury Insurance Scheme in Queensland), DVA (Department of Veteran Affairs)  all around the country. Our clients have received funding through public hospitals, private health funds, as well as departments of health.

We are also providing Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS Support Coordination, which is helpful for our clients that either don’t have enough support or don’t have any funding at all or don’t have enough funding especially when it comes to the specialty in our space ventilation, tracheostomy. We can help you with the funding and our NDIS Support Coordinators can help you with the funding.

We also provide specialist NDIS nursing assessments. We have a team of legal nurse consultants that can provide those NDIS specialist nursing assessments. Like I said, if you’re at home already and you have insufficient support, then I encourage you to reach out to us as well, whether it’s for more funding or simply for nursing services.

Now, if you’re an NDIS Support Coordinator watching this, and you need nursing care for your participants or you need an increase in funding or you need specialist nursing assessments, once again, we are here for you, and we can help you as well.

For example, when people are at home already and they go back to hospital all the time or they have gaps in their roster, we can pretty much fill them pretty quickly. If you’re at home already and you are on a ventilator and/or a tracheostomy and you have support workers, you must know that this is dangerous and support workers can’t work with patients with or clients with ventilation and tracheostomy and it’s like flying the airplane with the cabin crew instead of the pilot and people have died because of it.

So please, reach out to us if you need help, don’t worry about funding, we can help you with funding because we wouldn’t be in business if there wasn’t funding for our clients on ventilation, tracheostomy, home TPN, all the specialties that all the specialties that I just mentioned.

If you are a critical care nurse and you’re looking for a career change, we want to hear from you as well. If you have worked in critical care for a minimum of two years in ICU, pediatric ICU, or ED, ideally with a postgraduate certificate or qualification, we absolutely want to hear from you. We currently have jobs in Melbourne Sydney, Brisbane, Bendigo in Country Victoria, as well as in Warragul in country Victoria. We want to hear from you. We also have jobs in Albury, Wodonga on the Victoria, New South Wales border and we want to hear from you.

Please keep in mind that we provide a tailor-made solution for our clients, which means we don’t want nurses coming and going. We are looking for nurses who want to build relationships with our clients and we are looking for nurses that we can build a relationship with that want to work in the community.

If you are an intensive care specialist, we are also currently expanding our medical team. Please reach out to us if you’re interested in what we have to offer.

If you’re an intensive care specialist working in ICU and you have bed blocks or long-term patients in ICU adults and children, like I just described long-term ventilation, tracheostomy, and palliative care. We want to hear from you as well. We can help you eliminate your bed blocks, and you won’t even pay for it.

If you are a hospital executive watching this, we also want to hear from you. We can help you eliminate your bed blocks in ICU on respiratory wards, and in the emergency department, please reach to us as well and you won’t even pay for the service with the funding bodies that we are attached with.

The best way to reach out to us is on our website intensivecareathome.com. Call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or send us an email to [email protected]. If you’re in the U.S. or in the U.K. and you need help, please reach out to us as well. We can help you there privately.

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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.