How Long Can a Person Stay in Intensive Care on a Ventilator in Australia?

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How Long Can a Person Stay in Intensive Care on a Ventilator in Australia?

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In this week’s blog I want to talk about

“How LONG can a person stay in Intensive Care on a ventilator in Australia?”

I am always amazed to find how long some ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy can stay in Intensive Care.

No upper limits for stay in Intensive Care

There seems to be no upper limit for the length of stay and I am sure we’ve all seen our fair share of long-term ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy in Intensive Care who have been in ICU for far too long only to find that those Patients and their Families end up depressed, with no Quality of life and sometimes they end up catching a hospital acquired infection.

Some long-term ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy also bounce back and forth from wards to Intensive Care, again leaving those Patients and their Families extremely vulnerable!

If you ask people within Intensive Care why long-term ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy stay in Intensive Care for sometimes up to 12 months in Intensive Care you hear people saying things along the lines of

• The Patient will leave Intensive Care soon
• The Patient needs to be weaned off the ventilator first
• Nobody can look after the Patient but ICU

The list could go on and is not exhaustive…

Going home is a viable option and provides a win-win situation

If people then furthermore bring to light that going home is a viable option for long-term ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy, people once again make excuses along the lines of

• It’s not safe for those Patients to go home
• That wouldn’t work
• We need approval from the Department of Health
• Ventilated Patients with Tracheostomy can only be looked after in Intensive Care

Keeping long-term ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy in Intensive Care wastes opportunity and hundreds of thousands of Dollars $$$

Nobody even mentions the huge cost that easily goes into the hundreds of thousands of Dollars $$$, the massive dilemma for Patients and their Families to be in such a situation and nobody seems to be looking at the bed blocks that happen right across the board in Intensive Care because of long-term ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy blocking beds that could be used for other more acutely unwell Patients in need of a critical care bed.

It’s a massive waste of resources and a massive waste of tax payer’s money to keep long-term ventilated Adults& Children in Intensive Care!

It’s also a massive waste of opportunity for long-term ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy and their Families!

It’s therefore not acceptable that some Intensive Care Units are not giving long-term ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy a real choice and a genuine opportunity to go home...

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