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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, including home TPN.
In last week’s blog, I talked about,
MOM’S BEEN IN ICU FOR 3 MONTHS, WHAT ARE THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF MECHANICAL VENTILATION?
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
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: Is it Possible for My Mom to be Weaned Off the Tracheostomy in the ICU?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated patients with tracheostomies and where we also provide tailor-made solutions for intensive care units to provide quality services whilst saving money and resources.
Today’s quick tip for families in intensive care is a question that I had from Penny. And Penny asks, “Can my mom be weaned off the tracheostomy in ICU? What a great question to ask.
So Penny’s mom has been in ICU for about 3 months. She’s been weaned off the ventilator now, but she still has the tracheostomy in place. And she’s wondering what’s next? And should it be done in ICU or are there options to wean off the tracheostomy at home and decannulate at home? And the answer is a simple yes. That it can be done at home. It can be done in ICU, but the question is how much longer do you want to wait in ICU?
You’ve probably had enough after three months. Your mom had probably had enough. And you said that in your email, that she’s depressed. She has no quality of life. She wants to go home. And that is exactly what we can help you with here at Intensive Care at Home. Get your mom home with a tracheostomy with 24-hour intensive care nursing.
According to the mechanical home ventilation guidelines, that we publish on our website, where it’s safe to look after someone at home on a ventilator with a tracheostomy or with a tracheostomy when there’s 24/7 intensive care nursing in place. And all of our nurses have a minimum of 2 years ICU or pediatric ICU experience. And that is the safe way to do.
In regards to who is funding it here in Australia, the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) is funding it. But hospitals are also funding it because keep in mind, we are cutting the cost of an ICU bed by around 50%. And we are creating an empty bed for the ICU, which they desperately need. ICU beds are in high demand, and it’s a win-win situation for everyone.
So contact us, if you have a loved one in intensive care and talk to us about funding. How we can arrange funding for you and how we can help you to get the funding. And then we organize the nursing care and then we can get your mom home Penny, as quickly as possible.
That is my quick tip for today.
If you have a loved one in intensive care and you want to go home, contact us on one of the numbers on the top of our website at intensivecareathome.com or send us an email to [email protected].
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Thanks for watching.
This is Patrik Hutzel from Intensive Care Hotline and intensivecareathome.com, and I will talk to you in a few days.
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, Sunbury, Bendigo, Mornington Peninsula, Bittern, Patterson Lakes, Frankston area, South Gippsland, Drouin, Warragul, Trida, Trafalgar and Moe 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.
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.