HOW TO KEEP MORE PATIENTS AT HOME AND OUT OF ICU/PICU TAKING THE PRESSURE OFF HOSPITALS!

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HOW TO KEEP MORE PATIENTS AT HOME AND OUT OF ICU/PICU TAKING THE PRESSURE OFF HOSPITALS!

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How to keep more patients at home and out of ICU/PICU taking the pressure off hospitals!

So in today’s video, I want to briefly talk about the coronavirus crisis and how it impacts on intensive care units and on intensive care at home.

And also how we can help intensive care units and also how we can help your family to stay clear of hospitals and intensive care units especially during this time of crisis.

We’re already helping families to keep their loved ones out of intensive care, despite high acuity needs such as mechanical ventilation, tracheostomy, but also non invasive ventilation such as BIPAP or CPAP or other medical complexities that our clients deal with on a day by day basis.

So as this healthcare crisis has been unfolding in recent weeks and months and probably will continue to unfold over the next few weeks with the coronavirus, intensive care units all across the country and all over the world will be filling up with many critically ill patients putting even more pressure on an already stretched intensive care system.

You know, after having worked in intensive care for 20 years,ICU doesn’t need a pandemic like the COVID-19 to be full, to be busy and to be stretched to the maximum.

Anybody who’s worked in intensive care for any length of time can appreciate what’s probably going to come over the next few weeks and what’s already happening in some countries.

From that perspective you know, our job here at intensive care at home obviously is to keep our clients at home safely, so they can stay away from already overstretched ICU’s and hospital system.

So that’s our number one job, making sure that all of our clients are safe at home and don’t have any readmissions and that obviously our staff are safe.

And on that note, I really want to say a big, big thank you to our staff that keep our clients Safe at Home 24 hours a day, seven days a week, making sure they don’t have to go back to intensive care or to a hospital. That is our main goal. And again, I can’t thank our staff enough to make that happen on a day by day basis 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

But coming back to intensive care and how this impacts and how our service helps intensive care units to free up bed capacity to look after probably more acutely unwell patients that are probably about to get into the system very soon.

So especially long term ventilated patients in intensive care cause bed blocks, they are often there for much longer than necessary, especially if they have ventilation and tracheostomy needs.

With our service intensive care at home, we can take them home and keep them home predictably with a 24 hour roster, we can free up ICU capacity that most likely will be needed over the next few weeks for mainly COVID-19 patients flogging into the system.

By helping ICU’s free up bed capacity we’re creating a win win situation.

Now also, when somebody is long term ventilated with a tracheotomy in intensive care, because of the prolonged and often burdensome stay in intensive care, it makes them much more prone to get an infection, in an environment where there’s so many infections going around already, and now with the COVID-19 situation, it’s going to be heightened.

So, from that perspective, it’s time for you if you have a loved one in intensive care with long term ventilation and tracheostomy needs to get out of there before ICU is get overcrowded and also priorities might be changing as this crisis might be unfolding...

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