My Fiance's in ICU On Ventilation, Tracheostomy & Dialysis for Weeks, Can He Go Home?

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My Fiance's in ICU On Ventilation, Tracheostomy & Dialysis for Weeks, Can He Go 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. We also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality care for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies, also for medically complex patients at home, including Home TPN (total parenteral nutrition), Home IV potassium infusions, Home BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), Home CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), IV antibiotics, but also for adults and children that have a tracheostomy and are not ventilated. We also provide services at home for port management, central line management, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line management, as well as Hickman’s line management. We also provide services for palliative care at home. In essence, we are a genuine alternative for a long term stay in intensive care.

Today, I want to answer a question from Angela who says, “My fiancé has been in ICU for a few weeks now, and he wishes to go home, but he needs help with ventilation, tracheostomy, and dialysis. I have been doing dialysis at home prior to his hospital admission this time, but I don’t think I can do both dialysis, ventilation, and tracheostomy, it just seems to be too much. Can Intensive Care at Home help and what would that look like? We are in Australia. Can you help?”

So, here is what that would look like Angela, for your fiancé. So obviously, he’s in ICU, he’s depressed, he’s had enough, he wants to go home, for whatever reason, he can’t be weaned off the ventilator, but the desire for him to go home seems to be very strong, and that’s a good thing. He’s got the will to live, and he’s got the will to go home. So, in Australia right now, you should be looking for NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) funding, that’s assuming, there’s nothing else, your fiancé hasn’t had a car accident or is a DVA client.

Generally speaking, most of our clients are now funded through the NDIS, the National Disability Insurance Scheme, but even if your fiancé would not qualify for the NDIS, he might qualify for some hospital funding for some department of health funding, these are our discussions we can have once you are certain that this is what you want to do next. I am certain that we can help you with this because that’s bread and butter for us. We have been operating in Australia since 2013, and most of our clients at home are ventilated, tracheostomy, and if your fiancé needs dialysis, that’s fine as well. We can do all of it.

We’re basically sending you critical care nurses into the home, 24 hours a day, to manage all of that, to keep your fiancé at home predictably, and also, make sure he has quality of life at home because there is no quality of life for long-term patients in intensive care, no matter what anyone says.

Also, the cost of an ICU bed is around $5000 to $6000 per bed day, and Intensive Care at Home is approximately half of that cost. So, on top of improving your fiancé’s and your quality of life, the added-on benefit is simply that there’s some massive cost savings, probably around 50% and again, this provides a win-win situation. Then, once the funding is sorted, we will help you select the team, the right team for you and your family, of course. We help you select the staff at home that want to work with you, and you want to work with them. The right fit for your family, the right fit for your fiancé, the right fit for you, that’s very important.

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