My Dad is Depressed and Frustrated Being in ICU Long-Term!Can He Go Home with INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME

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My Dad is Depressed and Frustrated Being in ICU Long-Term! Can He Go Home with INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME!

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Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com, where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term, ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies. And where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality services for long-term, ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies. Otherwise, medically complex patients at home including Home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition), Home BiPAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure), Home CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure), also Home Tracheostomy care for adults and children that are not ventilated. Also, we provide IV potassium infusions, IV magnesium infusions at home, IV antibiotics. We also provide port management, central line management, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line management, Hickman’s line management as well as palliative care services at home.

Now, in today’s blog, I want to answer a question from a reader. And Tracy says,

“Hi Patrik,

My father is in intensive care, long-term. He’s on a ventilator with a tracheostomy. He has no quality of life and his brain is working. And he’s telling us he wants to get out of ICU and he wants to go home. Is this something that Intensive Care at Home can help with?”

And of course, this is exactly what we can help with, this is our core business to take patients home from intensive care that are stuck in intensive care long-term. That is exactly what we do.

Now, you haven’t shared more details why your dad is in ICU. How long he’s been there? But you’re saying, he’s been in ICU long-term. I would consider anything above 3, or 4 weeks in ICU long-term. And of course, your dad now that he’s probably more awake, probably getting more aware of his surroundings, he realizes, well, that’s not the best place to be in. ICUs have their time and their place, of course, for anything that is very acute to save lives. But now that he’s probably over that stage where he’s on a ventilator, tracheostomy can’t be weaned, can he be weaned off at home? Maybe he’s ventilator dependent for the rest of his life, you have not shared any more details, but this is right up our alley. How does it work?

Well, we’ll help you with getting your dad home by providing the equipment, providing the staffing, of course, having intensive care nurses at home 24-hours a day to basically replicate the ICU. But with much more quality of life at home, with having a stable team, having the same people that you choose coming to get there over and over again. That will help him to get better. It will prove it will improve his quality of life literally overnight and it will improve your quality of life and your family’s quality of life because you are probably, for lack of a better term, living in ICU, and you don’t want to continue that, I can fully understand.

It’s also a win-win situation on a much bigger picture level in terms of, we help the ICU to free up a bed that is in high demand. We help the ICU to free up staff, we help the ICU to free up equipment. we cut the cost of an intensive care bed by around 50% and for the same care at home. Again, it’s a win-win situation all around. And you might wonder who’s going to pay for it.

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