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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 Tracheostomy by improving their Quality of life and where we also provide tailor made solutions to hospitals and Intensive Care Units to save money and resources, whilst providing Quality Care!
In last week’s BLOG I shared
You can check out last week’s blog here.
In this week’s blog I want to share with you
“Long-term ventilation, tracheostomy and Intensive Care, it’s time for a new paradigm!”
Long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies in Intensive Care in Australia, stay there for way too long, compared to other first world countries!
And it’s costing the tax payer around $5,000 per bed day to keep long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies in Intensive Care.
And the burden and not having any quality of life and/or any quality-of-end-of-life for long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies in Intensive Care can’t be weighed up in monetary terms!
The burden for families of long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies in Intensive Care of putting their lives on hold while they are having their loved one in Intensive Care on a ventilator with a tracheostomy can’t be weighed up in monetary terms either.
Bed blocks and waiting lists are growing
Long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies in Intensive Care block beds that could be otherwise used for more acute, unstable and critically ill Patients in need of a critical care bed.
There are complex issues that go hand in hand with long-term ventilation and tracheostomy in Intensive Care!
There are complex issues even when people do go home on a ventilator with tracheostomy and after two decades of practice when providing INTENSIVE HOME CARE nursing for long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies instead of Intensive Care in Europe are speaking for itself and this paradigm shift is resolving a lot of the issues!
Our experience and service provision for long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies in Australia is speaking volumes too.
The cost of providing Intensive Home care instead of providing a bed in Intensive Care is going down by more than 50%, a bed is becoming available in Intensive Care and the quality of life for long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies and their families is improving!
It’s a win-win situation.
It’s a paradigm shift where everybody is benefiting.
This new paradigm for providing Intensive Home Care services for long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies as a genuine alternative to a long term stay in Intensive Care, also means that Patients and their families have choice and they don’t have to go through long and burdensome stays in Intensive Care.
What are your thoughts?
Do you think a paradigm shift is necessary to improve the quality of life for long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies in a home care environment?
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We are also currently hiring enthusiastic and experienced Intensive Care nurses with Critical Care certificate for a ventilated Clients in Melbourne.
We would also like to hear from you if you have a minimum of 2 years Paediatric ICU experience, as we have opportunities here as well!
For more information check out our Career section here www.intensivecareathome.com.au/careers or contact Patrik on 041 094 2230 or simply hit reply to this email.
You can also contact me on 041 094 2230 if you want to know more about how we can help you, your Intensive Care Unit and your Patients and Families.
Thank you for tuning into this week’s blog.
I also want to wish you and your family a merry Christmas and a happy new year!
This is Patrik Hutzel from INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME and I see you again in the new year in another update!