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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 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, including home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition), including IV fluids, home BiPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), home CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) and so forth.

In today’s blog, I want to announce that we have been selected as part of a tender selection process for New South Wales Health for their Western Sydney local health district to be part of their, in-touch program.

Basically, what we are being selected for is to provide an ED or Emergency Department bypass service where we basically send our critical care, registered nurses into people’s homes to unblock nasogastric tubes or change nasogastric tubes, unblock PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy) tubes, sometimes catheters and so forth, to offload and bypass the Emergency Department.

Also obviously looking at tracheostomies at home where people can live independently with a tracheostomy, which just happens very rarely. But it can happen here and there where someone can look after their tracheostomy independently, especially if they’re mobile as well, but we are obviously very proud to be part of the in-touch service for Western Sydney local health district and that we can help them to offload and bypass their Emergency Department and keep their ED base empty for more critically unwell patients.

Now, if you are running a hospital or an ED or an ICU and you need to offload your beds, you should contact us as well because we can help you with our CCRNs in the community, to keep your ICUs empty and keep your ED beds empty and use them for more critically unwell patients because that’s what we do here at Intensive Care at Home.

Now, thank you so much for watching. And again, if you’re a hospital executive, ICU doctor, ICU medical director, ED medical director, please contact us. We can help you with all of that.

If you are an NDIS support coordinator or NDIS specialist support coordinator and one of your participants needs nursing care because of tracheostomy, ventilation, BiPAP, CPAP, IV fluids, TPN at home, et cetera. Please contact us as well. We can help you and your participants.

We can also help you with advocating for the NDIS funding if you’re stuck in ICU yourself or your family member. And if you’re watching this video, please contact us as well. You’re probably living in an ICU and spending day and night then and we can help you to get you out of there.

And if you are a critical care registered nurse with a minimum of two years ICU experience, we absolutely want to hear from you, especially in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

We also have a fly in, fly out role for a client in country, New South Wales, please contact us as well if you’re interested in that.

And if you are an intensive care specialist, we want to hear from you as well. We are currently expanding our medical team as well.

Thank you so much for watching.

For more information, go to intensivecareathome.com. Contact us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or 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 will talk to you in a few days.

Take care for now.