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Quick Tip for Families in Intensive Care: The ICU Team is Denying My Grandfather a Tracheostomy After Two Weeks Ventilation,
Help!
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care.
So today I was talking to a client who has their 74-year-old grandfather in ICU with pneumonia. He’s been ventilated now for about two weeks and he’s not ready to be extubated yet by the sounds of things, but he’s
been off sedation for a few days. And he’s still in an Assist Control ventilation mode, but he’s not breathing up yet.
So, the intensive care team is telling our client that their grandfather can’t have a tracheostomy but they’re not giving any reason. So, we’ve dug a little bit deeper, and we looked at, “Okay, what’s really going on here?” And it turns out that there’s no contraindication to doing
a tracheostomy with what we understand.
There’s no high FIO2 (fraction of inspired oxygen) levels, no high PEEP (positive end expiratory pressure), there’s no blood thinners going like Heparin or
Warfarin, there’s no risk of bleeding. So, then the tracheostomy should be done again.
The biggest challenge for families in intensive care is simply that they don’t know what they don’t know. They don’t know what to look for. They don’t know what questions to ask. They don’t know their rights, and they don’t know how to manage doctors and nurses in intensive care.
So, it all comes down to you asking the right questions. It all comes down to you getting a second opinion. It all comes down to you asking the right questions and getting help when you need help, so that you can get the best outcomes and treatment for your loved one in intensive care.
You need to be able
to make informed decisions, have peace of mind, control, power, and influence. And that’s what we can help you with very, very quickly at intensivecarehotline.com, just by getting on a phone call, looking at medical records or talking to doctors and nurses directly. It’s as simple as that.
Now, if you have a loved one in intensive care and you need help, go to
intensivecarehotline.com and call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or simply send us an email to support@intensivecarehotline.com with your questions.
Also, we have a membership
for families of critically ill patients in intensive care at intensivecaresupport.org and you can go there directly and get access to the membership in the membership area. You have access to me and my team 24 hours a day in the membership area and via email and we answer all questions, intensive care related. You can also get access at intensivecarehotline.com by clicking on the membership
link.
I also offer 1:1 consulting and advocacy over the phone, via Skype Zoom, WhatsApp, whichever medium works best for you. And I talked to doctors and nurses
directly. I ask all the questions you haven’t even considered asking, but you must ask if you want to have peace of mind, control, power and influence and if you want to make informed decisions.
Now, I also represent you in family meetings with the intensive care team so that once again, you have clinical representation and that you have people advocating for you in those meetings so that the
intensive care teams don’t take advantage of you.
I was in a family meeting today with the client, making sure they have good representation, and they have someone there that asks all the questions that you haven’t even considered asking, but you must ask so that you can make informed decisions, have peace of mind, control, power, and influence.
We also offer medical record reviews in real time so that you can get a second opinion in real time. We also offer medical record reviews after intensive care if you have unanswered questions, if you need closure or if you are simply
suspecting medical negligence.
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Thanks for watching.
This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com, and I will talk to you in a few days.
Take care for now.
