Can You Live a Long Life with a Tracheostomy?

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Can You Live a Long Life with a Tracheostomy?

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Hello and welcome to another Intensive Care at Home and intensivecarehotline.com livestream.

Today’s question is, again, a question that we get very frequently. It’s one of the most frequently asked questions whether it comes to patients in intensive care or families in intensive care, or whether it comes to Intensive Care at Home services. It’s a question that comes up over and over again. It also comes back to, once again, to the purpose of a tracheostomy, because the purpose of a tracheostomy can be many folds, but many families get confused about it.

I also believe that intensive care teams don’t explain it well enough to really understand the purpose of a tracheostomy, and its many implications, but also its usefulness for certain situations. So, I want to dive into that today in much depth.

I also, want to welcome our viewers who watched this on the replay if you couldn’t make the livestream.

So, before we go into today’s topic, in case you are wondering what makes me qualified to talk about such a topic as, “Can you live a long life with a tracheostomy?”, my name is Patrik Hutzel. I am a critical care nurse by background. I have been working in critical care/intensive care for over 20 years in three different countries. I have been working as a nurse unit manager in intensive care for over five years. I am the founder and managing director of Intensive Care at Home, where we are providing a genuine alternative to a long-term stay in intensive care and where we are providing quality of life and in some situations quality of end-of-life at home for long-term intensive care patients, predominantly with ventilation, tracheostomy, BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), CPAP ventilation (continuous positive airway pressure), home TPN (total parenteral nutrition) other medically complex patients as well that are not necessarily ventilated, but that have still intensive care nursing needs. So, that’s a bit of my background.

I’m also a counsellor and consultant for families in intensive care. I’m an advocate and consultant for families in intensive care, and I have been advocating and consulting families in intensive care for the last 10 years as part of my intensivecarehotline.com consulting and advocacy business.

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So, can you live a long life with a tracheostomy? Let’s dive right into this today. The short answer of it is it depends. Like many questions when it comes to intensive care, complex care, intensive care at home, it’s often not a clearcut answer. But we really need to go one step back here and discuss really what’s the purpose of a tracheostomy. When do you need a tracheostomy? What’s the purpose? What’s the shelf life of a tracheostomy? And that’s very different for different people.

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