My Husband's in ICU for 4 Months with TPN &Tracheostomy, Can He Go Home with INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME?

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My Husband's in ICU for 4 Months with TPN & Tracheostomy, 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 at home and where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units at home whilst providing quality care for long-term, ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies at home, otherwise medically complex clients at home, adults and children, which includes BIPAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure), CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure), home tracheostomy care for adults and children that are not ventilated, Home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition), home IV potassium infusions, home IV magnesium infusions, as well as home IV antibiotics. We also provide port management, central line management, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line management, as well as Hickman’s line management, and we also provide palliative care at home.

We also have sent, and we continue to send our critical care nurses into the home for emergency department bypass services. We have done so successfully for the Western Sydney Local Area Health District, their in-touch program.

Now, let’s go to an email from Pamela that I had, and Pamela says,

“Hi Patrik,

My husband has been in ICU for over 4 months, and we are looking at taking him home, but he needs TPN feeding, and he has a tracheostomy.

I want you to let people know that kidney failure can be reversed in ICU as my husband had no kidney function and had dialysis and diuretics together for a couple of weeks and lots of prayer and now his kidneys are working perfectly fine.”

I’ve been saying that for the longest, I am a critical care nurse by background, and I have been working in critical care for nearly 25 years in three different countries where I have been working as a nurse manager for over 5 years in critical care. I’ve been running Intensive Care at Home since 2012.

So, we’ve been saying that all the way that kidney failure in intensive care can be reversed. It’s not a guarantee of course, but it can be reversed. We have more to say about that at intensivecarehotline.com where we provide education, consulting and advocacy for families in intensive care.

Back to Pamela’s email, “He does have problems from the drug induced coma they put him in, and he had three internal bleeding and pneumonia and lung infections. We want to have him at home as quickly as possible because there’s just no quality of life in ICU. It’s not a good environment. We’re not sure how Intensive Care at Home will work for my husband, but we are curious to find out.

From, Pamela.”

Pamela, thank you so much for sharing your husband’s situation. If your husband has been in ICU for 4 months, that’s terrible, and I’m glad he’s off the dialysis.

Also, you’re mentioning pneumonia and lung infections. Well, ICU patients are very prone to catching infections because they are surrounded by bugs from other patients, and that simply does not happen at home. Home care is a much cleaner environment, Intensive Care at Home, in particular, is a much cleaner environment than having patients stuck in ICU for weeks or months on end and it’s just not appropriate.

Now, the good news is you would see under our case study section at Intensive Care at Home that we are doing Home TPN and we’re also doing tracheostomy care at home. All of that is bread and butter for us.

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