Dad Needs a Tracheostomy in ICU & Hypoxic Brain Injury, Can He Go Home with INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME?

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Dad Needs a Tracheostomy in ICU & Hypoxic Brain Injury, Can He Go Home with INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME?

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My Mom Went from LTAC (Long-Term Acute Care) to a Skilled Nursing Facility with Tracheostomy & Was Back in ICU Within Less Than 24 Hours

Patrik: Hello and welcome to another intensivecarehotline.com podcast. At Intensive Care Hotline, we instantly improve the lives for families of critically ill patients in intensive care so that you can make informed decisions, have peace of mind, real power, real control, and so that you can influence decision-making fast even if you’re not a doctor or a nurse in intensive care.

This is another intensivecarehotline.com podcast, and today I want to welcome Debra. Debra is one of our clients and we worked with Debra for quite some time now for a few months, and Debra really wants to share with the world and mainly our audience in the U.S. of what happened to her mom in hospitals and in long-term acute care facilities so that the world and, again, especially our audience in the U.S., knows what to pay attention to when they have a loved one in hospitals or in intensive care.

Welcome, Debra.

Debra: Thank you. Thank you, sir.

Patrik: Thank you. Debra, I know you’ve been through a lot in the last few months with your mom being in hospital and currently in intensive care. Do you want to share what happened to your mom, and the journey of your mom, and where your mom is right now?

Debra: Yes. Yes. So, my mother is 74 years old, extremely active. She’s lived independently. She handled all of her financials and she drove and she’s a very independent person. One day, she was at a yard sale. She tripped over something in the person’s yard. She developed a severe brain bleed and an aneurysm, which caused a stroke, and she was rushed to intensive care. She went to a large facility in St. Louis, Missouri, and she was given a 5% chance of survival.

Fortunately, she did pull through and at the time, I was alone making decisions for myself with limited experience with medical situations, especially something this dramatic, but the doctors told me she needed to have tracheostomy. She needed a G-tube in order to survive. Of course, I agreed to those things because my goal was for my mother to survive. But soon after, within days of performing those procedures, they began talking about the next step of care now that she has the G-tube, now that she’s been tracheostomized, she needs to be transferred to a long-term acute care facility.

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The discharge nurse referred us to a facility close to our home because she was two hours away. There was discharge planning. I met with the representative from the long-term acute care facility, and what’s important to know is that the person that you will meet from the long-term acute care facility is not a clinician in most cases. They are bureaucrats. They are administrators, and their job is to get your business. The discharge plan, because my mother had two brain surgeries and she had a shunt, included a follow-up with a neurologist, and she’s a CAD patient. She had coronary artery disease (CAD), and so she needed her medications restarted, but the long-term acute care facility only had a primary care physician on staff.

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