What are the Long Term Effects from a Tracheostomy Besides Being Alive? Live Stream!

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What are the Long Term Effects from a Tracheostomy Besides Being Alive? Live Stream!

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Hello and welcome to another Intensive Care Hotline and Intensive Care at Home livestream. Thank you so much for coming on to the show.

Today’s topic is, “What are the long-term effects from a tracheostomy besides being alive?” This is actually something that was requested on our last livestream. I thought I’ll dive right into it today.

Now, before we go into today’s topic, you might wonder what makes me qualified to talk about today’s topic. Again, my name is Patrik Hutzel. I’m the host of the show, founder of Intensive Care Hotline and Intensive Care at Home. I am a critical care nurse by background. I have been working in intensive care for over 20 years in three different countries where I have also worked as a nurse unit manager in intensive care for over five years.

I have been consulting and advocating for families in intensive care all around the world for the last 10 years as part of my intensivecarehotline.com consulting and advocacy service. I’m also the founder and managing director of Intensive Care at Home where we provide an intensive care substitution service at home for predominantly long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies, but we also provide services such as home BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), home CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition), and IV fluids at home. Anything that requires a critical care nurse at home, we provide at Intensive Care at Home.

Currently with Intensive Care at Home, we are operating all around Australia, in all major capital cities, including rural and regional areas. We are just about to start out in the U.S. as well, but I have more to say about that in the next few weeks.

Now, please type your questions into the chat pad if you want to. Any questions, type them into the chat pad. If we have time later in the presentation, I can also take phone calls. If you have any questions, you can dial in live, but it depends how far we go and how many questions we have coming in through the chat pad and how we go with today’s presentation.

Now, what are the long-term effects from a tracheostomy besides being alive? Well, let me just start with that the goal of anyone in intensive care, let me make that abundantly clear here. The goal for anyone in intensive care when they’re in intensive care, on a ventilator with a breathing tube, should be to wean them off a ventilator, take them off the ventilator, and take out the breathing tube, that should be the ultimate goal for anyone in intensive care full stop.

Now, because I do believe there’s also this notion that if someone is in intensive care on a ventilator with a breathing tube that maybe a tracheostomy is automatically the next step. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. The goal is always to avoid a tracheostomy.

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