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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, Home BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), Home CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), but also for patients who are not ventilated and have a tracheostomy only.

So, in today’s video, I want to actually answer a question from one of our readers and also potential clients who asked us whether we provide home care nursing services for TAC (Transport Accident Commission) clients in Victoria.

A short answer to that is this, it’s a YES. Background of the question is that a lady has contacted us who has a husband in ICU after a motor vehicle accident and he’s now on a ventilator in intensive care. And he’s struggling to come off the ventilator and she’s asking whether he should have a tracheostomy. And if he has a tracheostomy, if he then can go home with Intensive Care at Home funded by the TAC.

Now, we are not in control yet in Intensive Care at Home on what the TAC is and isn’t funding. However, the short answer to your question is absolutely yes. We do take patients on from intensive care with a ventilator or a tracheostomy, whether it’s invasive ventilation with a tracheostomy or whether it’s noninvasive ventilation such as BiPAP/ CPAP ventilation with a mask.

Now, in this situation, we have looked at the situation of the lady and the gentleman probably doesn’t need a tracheostomy, which is great. Hopefully he’ll come off the ventilator and then go on to rehabilitation and go home. However, we are currently looking after TAC clients who are ventilated with a tracheostomy at home. We have also looked after TAC clients over the years who didn’t have a tracheostomy but needed BiPAP/ CPAP ventilation after motor vehicle accidents.

We also looked after TAC client that weren’t ventilated but had a tracheostomy 24 hours a day. So we’ve really covered a whole range for TAC clients again, for those of you who may wonder what does TAC stand for. TAC stands for the Transport and Accident Commission in Victoria.

So I hope that answers your question.

If God forbid you are in a motor vehicle accident in Victoria and you need TAC support and you need nursing care at home from the TAC and you have that prescribed, you should contact us for nursing care at home with Intensive Care at Home. Or if your loved one is stuck in ICU after an MVA (motor vehicle accident) long term because they can’t come off the ventilator or they need a tracheostomy, please contact us. We can help you at home as well.

So I hope that answers the question because we get the question quite frequently.

If you have a loved one stuck in intensive care, long-term, especially if they’re ventilated with a tracheostomy, or if they’re not ventilated, but they have a tracheostomy or if they don’t have a tracheostomy, but are long-term ventilated BiPAP/ CPAP, we can absolutely help.

Also with Home TPN (total parenteral nutrition). TPN is intravenous nutrition. We can help with that as well.

If you are an NDIS Support Coordinator or NDIS Specialist Support Coordinator and you’re looking for nursing care for some of your participants, especially when it comes to mechanical ventilation, tracheostomy, Home TPN, Home IV antibiotics, Home IV fluids including electrolyte infusion such as potassium, magnesium, you’ve come to the right place here at the Intensive Care at Home.

If you’re unsure about NDIS nursing funding, please contact us. We can help you with that. We can help you with the advocacy. We can also do NDIS nursing assessments.

If you are a critical care nurse and you’re looking for a career change. Please contact us as well. We’re looking for critical care nurses with a minimum of two years ICU or ED experience, ideally with postgraduate critical care qualifications.

If you’re an intensive care specialist and you have bed blocks in your ICU, we want to hear from you. And if you are a hospital executive watching this and you have bed blocks in your ICU or an ED, even we can help you with that as well.

We are currently providing an emergency department bypass service for the Western Sydney local area health district in New South Wales. So we can help your ED as well, by bypassing ED by sending our CCRNS to the clients at home, keeping the ED empty, as well as keeping ICU empty.

Now, we are also an NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme), TAC (Transport Accident Commission) in Victoria, iCare in New South Wales, NIISQ (National Injury Insurance Scheme in Queensland) and DVA (Department of Veteran Affairs) approved service provider in Australia. We’re operating all around the country in all major capital cities as well as rural and regional areas.

So I hope that answers your question for today.

We also offer level 2 and level 3 NDIS Support Coordination. As I mentioned, we also offer NDIS nursing assessment or nursing assessment for other funding bodies as well.

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Thanks for watching.

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

Take care for now.