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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 adults and children and medically complex adults and children at home. Including Home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition), BiPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) ventilation as well as tracheostomy  care without ventilation, as well as IV potassium, and IV electrolyte infusions at home as well.

Now in today’s videos, I want to answer a question from one of our readers who says, and this is from Juliette who says, “What can you do for my mother at home? There’s no quality of life in ICU. She’s been there for six weeks now. Can you take her home?”

Well, this is going to be a really short video today. But of course, we can take your mother home. I mean that’s bread and butter for us to take long-term patients out of ICU, assuming they are ventilated, have a tracheostomy. But even if there are other issues such as maybe it’s palliative care. Maybe it’s Home TPN in particular, maybe it’s an electrolyte imbalance such as low potassium, high potassium, we can manage all of that at home. Or maybe your mom is CPAP dependent, BiPAP-dependent in ICU. Maybe she is hemodynamically unstable, then we would need to make an assessment whether we can manage that at home.

Let’s just say she’s inotrope or vasopressor dependent, but we can assess that and take her home from there. But the reality is that after six weeks in ICU, of course, there is no quality of life in ICU. And you want your mom at home, I guess there’s the added-on benefit. You are probably and are probably other family members, you are spending day and night in intensive care to be with your mom and that’s not healthy either.

On top of that, the intensive care unit probably needs to free up the bed. There’s a high demand on ICU beds. The most sought-after bed in a hospital is the intensive care bed without the shadow of a doubt. The most sought-after staff in the hospital are intensive care, nurses, intensive care doctors. So, by taking a patient home from intensive care, you’re also taking the pressure off the hospital and the intensive care unit in particular. So, there’s only benefits by taking your mom home. It’s only creating a win-win situation and we can help you with all of that.

The next step really is to reach out to us to take the next steps, talk to the ICU, look at the funding. Again, from a funding perspective, we are currently predominantly operating all around Australia. The NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) is one of the funding bodies that our clients are using, but we are also TAC (Transport Accident Care) funded in Victoria, ICare in New South Wales, and NIISQ (National Injury Insurance Scheme in Queensland) and DVA in all around Australia, the Department of Veteran Affairs. We also have received funding from public hospitals and Departments of Health. So one way or another, you should reach out to us.

Now, if you are watching this and you are an intensive care specialist or an intensive care nurse and you have bed blocks in your ICU, you can resonate with what our reader says here. I encourage you to reach out to us as well. You might also be a hospital executive watching this. You are probably well aware of your bed blocks in ICU. And we can help you eliminate them by taking your patients home.

This also puts a good light on hospitals by partnering with their consumers, partnering with patients and families in what they want and what is appropriate for their needs in situations where there’s long-term stays in intensive care

Now, if you are a patient or a family who has a loved one in intensive care and you’re considering going home, please contact us at intensivecareathome.com on one of the numbers on the top of our website or simply send us an email to [email protected].

You might be at home already with ventilation, tracheostomy, BiPAP, CPAP and you have insufficient support. I encourage you to reach out to us as well. Again, we can help you with all levels of support, whether it’s the funding side of things.

If you are looking for an NDIS support coordinator, we can help you with that as well. If you happen to be an NDIS support coordinator and you’re watching this and you have NDIS participants with ventilation, tracheostomy needs. I encourage you to reach out to us as well.

We have helped countless of our clients to advocate for 24-hour NDIS funded nursing care. And we have been very successful at that because of our clinical expertise that we’re bringing to the market and to our clients and to hospitals. So I encourage you to reach out to us as well.

If you’re struggling with 24-hour nursing care for your NDIS clients, if you are a critical care nurse, please reach out to us as well, especially if you’re looking for a career change.

We are having currently CCRN jobs in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Please reach out to us as well if you are an intensive care specialist and you’re looking for a career change.

We are currently expanding our medical team as well. Please contact us at intensivecarehome.com as well.

Well, thank you so much for watching the video today.

Also have a look at our membership for families in intensive care and Intensive Care at Home at intensivecaresupport.org. There, you have access to me and my team 24 hours a day in a membership area and via email and we answer all questions, intensive care and Intensive Care at Home related.

We also provide NDIS nursing assessments. Please reach out to us as well.

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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.