Should my dad go home with INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME, should he stay in ICU or go to LTAC? Live stream

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Welcome to another Intensive Care at Home live stream. My name is Patrik Hutzel, and I’m the Founder of Intensive Care at Home. And in today’s live stream, I want to talk to you about, “Should my dad go home with Intensive Care at Home? Should he stay in ICU, or should he go to LTAC?” And I want to dive very deep into this question today. And obviously, this question is all about somebody that’s in intensive care. Your dad could be, your mom could be, your brother could be, your sister could be, your spouse, whoever it is that we are referring to and if they’re in intensive care long-term, ventilated with a tracheostomy, there are other clients as well, or patients in intensive care that could go home as well. Even if they don’t have a tracheostomy, for example, they might have BiPAP or CPAP ventilation needs, and so forth. Or they might have other medical complexities, not necessarily ventilated, but they might have seizures that need airway management when those seizures occur and so forth. But I’ll come to that in a moment.

Before I go into the topic, you may wonder what makes me qualify to talk about this topic. So just very briefly about myself. I am a critical care nurse by background. I have worked in intensive care for over 20 years in three different countries. While ago, I was part of Intensive Care at Home in Germany over 20 years ago. And I was part of setting up Intensive Care at Home in Germany. And then, in 2012, 2013, I started setting it up here in Australia. I should say I started it successfully. We have a growing and established company now where we look after many long-term ventilated patients at home instead of them staying in intensive care long-term.

So that’s a little bit of background. I have also worked in intensive care as a nurse unit manager for over five years. We are also running Intensive Care Hotline where we are providing a consulting advocacy service for families in intensive care. And we talk to families in intensive care all over the world every day. So we have massive insights into intensive care, and also obviously what’s happening with intensive care at home, and I will talk to you about that in a moment.

So let’s focus on today’s topic. “Should my dad go home with Intensive Care at Home? Should he stay in ICU or go to LTAC?”

Now, again, this is just hypothetical question, but because we’re getting this question pretty much every day of the week, this is why I wanted to make a video about it today in a live stream where you can ask questions.

So, instead of, can your dad go home? I could have also said, can your mom go home? Can your brother go home? Can your sister go home? Can your child go home? Your daughter, your son, can your wife, your husband go home? So, we’re getting this question every day of the week probably all over the world, really, but obviously, at the moment, we are an Australian-based company, Intensive Care at Home, and we’re providing services mainly in Australia, predominantly Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, but we are also going to Adelaide and Perth. But we also have a lot of inquiries from the US. And I want to address our US audience as we go along in today’s video.

So when someone is in intensive care long-term, and when I say long-term, I’m probably referring to anything that’s sort of above the six to eight-week mark, they have tracheostomy, they are on a ventilator, and they’re struggling getting off the ventilator. That is probably when Intensive Care at Home comes in, where we can help taking your loved one home.

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