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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 and children with tracheostomies. And where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units, whilst providing quality service for long-term ventilated patients with tracheostomy, medically complex patients at home including Home TPN (total parenteral nutrition), BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure) and CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) ventilation. As well as for patients who are not ventilated but have a tracheostomy and therefore need 24-hour critical care nurses at home.
So in today’s blog, I want to answer a question from one of our readers who says, “My dad has a tracheostomy and a ventilator and has been in ICU for 12 weeks now. They said he can only be weaned off the ventilator very slowly and have physical therapy very slowly and he’s not making a lot of progress. He’s not even opening eyes at the moment. Can he go home?” And this is a question from Tracy.
Now Tracy, the short answer to your question is absolutely yes. You can go home with Intensive Care at Home. That is bread and butter for us. We’re looking after a number of ventilated clients with a tracheostomy at home. We are the only service in Australia that is third party accredited to provide Intensive Care at Home services at home.
We have teams of critical care nurses with a minimum of two years’ critical care nursing experience that can bring the intensive care into your home and wean your dad off the ventilator. We also have our own doctor and we can bring the intensive care into your home and continue treatment there. Your dad will be so much better off weaning off the ventilator at home in a patient and family-friendly environment.
I know from your email, you’re spending day and night in ICU, and your other family members too and that is not sustainable in the long run now and 12 weeks in ICU is a very, very long time. Now, currently with Intensive Care at Home, we are operating all around Australia.
We are operating in all major capital cities as well as all states and territories. And our clients are NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme), TAC (Transport Accident Commission) in Victoria, iCare in New South Wales, NIISQ (National Injury Insurance Scheme in Queensland) or DVA (Department of Veteran Affairs) funded. We also have received funding through public hospitals or Departments of Health.
So, if you want your dad at home, you should absolutely contact us to get your dad home. And it’s a win-win situation. Your dad doesn’t want to be in ICU. The ICU doesn’t want to occupy a bed for weeks on end. And it’s half of the cost at home in terms of an intensive care bed. So really everyone is winning here.
Also as part of this, we also provide NDIS specialist support coordinations. If you need help with an NDIS plan with the funding, you should contact us because we can help with NDIS specialist support coordinations as well.
So I hope that answers your questions.
We can deploy and get together a team very quickly to get your dad home. We’ve done it many, many times and our clients stay at home, predictably.
Now, if you have a loved one in intensive care and you want to go home with our service similar to what Tracy is asking here. If you want to go home with Intensive Care at Home instead of staying in hospital or in intensive care for weeks, months on end. 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 simply send an email to [email protected].
Also have a look at our case studies because there we highlight more about what we do for our clients, how clients live and have treatment at home with ventilation.
Tracheostomy is non-invasive ventilation or also for clients that are not ventilated but have a tracheostomy and need critical care nurses 24 hours a day. Because even in the hospital, patients with a tracheostomy, generally speaking, are in intensive care because nobody else can look after tracheostomy.
And if you are at home already and you need support for your loved one because you have insufficient support or insufficient funding, please contact us as well. Especially when it comes to NDIS funding we can provide NDIS specialist support coordinations.
We have found that a lot of NDIS Support Coordinators don’t understand how to advocate appropriately for their participants in the community, especially when their participants are medically complex such as our clients are medically complex with ventilation, tracheostomy, TPN and the rest of it.
And if you are an NDIS Support Coordinator and you have a participant that is in ICU and struggling to go home in a similar situation, please contact us as well. 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 qualification, please contact us as well. Check out our career section. We are currently hiring in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane as well.
And if you are a critical care consultant, if you’re an intensive care specialist, we want to hear from you as well. We are currently expanding our medical team as well. And you might have clients or patients in your ICU that are blocking one of your beds. And also, there’s a much better quality of life at home. It’s once again a win-win situation.
If you’re a hospital executive and you are watching this, again, you probably know of your bed blocks in ICU. Please contact us as well so we can help you manage and improve your bed flow in ICU.
Once again, we are an NDIS approved community nursing service provider, TAC in Victoria, DVA nationwide, as well as ICare in New South Wales, and NIISQ in Queensland. We have also received funding through Departments of Health and public hospitals.
Thank you so much for watching this video.
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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.