Dad’s been in ICU 4 Months, Ventilated with Tracheostomy,I want Him Home with Intensive Care at Home

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Wherever you are, thank you so much for coming on to another YouTube live stream from Intensive Care at Home and Intensive Care Hotline. I want to welcome you and we’ll just wait a minute until the people have arrived. Before we dive into today’s session, which is, “My dad has been in ICU for four months or 120 days ventilated with tracheostomy. I want him home with Intensive Care at Home.” Today, I want to illustrate of what keeps this gentleman in ICU to this point, which is mainly a mindset. It’s not based on reality. It’s mainly based on a mindset. But I will break all of that down today in terms of mindset shift, practical steps to take to get this gentleman home from ICU after nearly four months.

But I would break all of that down. I will talk about the gentleman’s medical history and the steps that need to be taken to enable this gentleman and his family to have quality of life at home, rather than being stuck in intensive care unnecessarily. Unnecessarily taking up an ICU bed that costs nowadays $6,000 per bed a day is the most highly sought-after bed in a hospital where you also have the highly sought-after staff needed in a hospital, ICU doctors, ICU nurses. Very rare staff to find these days.

Very hard to train these staff, very hard to get the experience because it’s a very tough environment. You got to keep those beds empty at all costs and take patients home instead and make it a win-win situation for everyone.

So, I would break all of that down. We’ll just give it another minute for the people to arrive. It’s 10:30 here in Melbourne, Australia on a Sunday morning. It is just after 6:30 Eastern Standard Time on a Saturday on the East coast in the U.S. And it’s just after 3:30 PM Pacific Rime on the West Coast of the United States because I know we’ll have us here from all over the world and it’s just after 11:30 PM on a Saturday night in the U.K.

So, without further ado, let’s get started. So again, today’s headline or today’s subject or today’s title is, “My dad has been in ICU for four months or 120 days ventilated with a tracheostomy after many complications. I want him home with “Intensive Care at Home.” And this is, again, I’m only talking about real things here. I never make up things that this comes from my personal experience and experience with, I don’t know, hundreds or even thousands of families in intensive care that I work with in over two decades. So that brings me to what makes me qualified, talking about today’s topic.

So, I’m an intensive care nurse by background. I have worked in intensive care for over 20 years in three different countries. Out of those over 20 years in ICU I have worked for over five years as a nurse unit manager in intensive care. As a matter of fact, I have managed two separate ICUs and I have consulted and advocated for families in intensive care since 2013 as part of my intensivecarehotline.com. And I’m talking to families in intensive care all over the world every day.

I’m also the founder and managing director of Intensive Care at Home where we look after predominantly long-term ventilated patients at home as a genuine alternative to intensive care or to a long-term stay in intensive care by enabling people or patients in ICU adults and children to have quality of life at home. In some instances, it’s called end-of-life at home and free up, again, the most sought-after ICU bed or the most sought-after hospital bed there ever is, which is the ICU bed.

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