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Quick Tip for Families in Intensive Care: My Dad’s on High Flow Oxygen, Nasogastric Tube & Awake! ICU Wants to Kill Him Moving Him to Hospice, Help!

Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care.

So, today I’ve got an email from Corin who says,

“Hi Patrik,

My dad is on high flow oxygen, nasogastric tube for nutrition and water. He is aware and responding and he tells me he wants to fight, and they want to remove the nasogastric tube and remove the water and put him in hospice to let him die.”

Well, thank you so much Corin for sharing that, and that is so irresponsible and also inappropriate of the hospital to do that.

Now, first off, it is not up to the hospital to more or less kill your dad because that’s what it looks like to me. I mean, hospice might now just be a euphemism for killing people, that’s what it looks like in this situation. Why can’t your dad make his own decisions about whether he wants to live, or he wants to die? This is ridiculous and they can just keep going with the nasogastric tube and give him some food and see whether he can improve, get him out of bed and get him to mobilize if he’s wanting to fight.

Now, you haven’t shared what your dad’s exact condition is but there’s definitely a way for forward here. He’s not on BIPAP, he’s not on CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), he’s not intubated, and he’s just on high-flow nasal prongs. He can talk to you; he can share with the intensive care team that he wants to fight and why are they not talking to him directly and ask him what he wants? That’s very inhumane. It’s very irresponsible, very inhumane and it’s also very unethical, a moral demon.

What’s the urgency to kill someone? That is always the question that I have, what is the urgency to end someone’s life? Why is there an urgency even? The other thing is, Corin I can see you’re in the United States, I will also put a link below this video of a video of a documentary that was done, I believe on CBC last year in 2023, that some hospitals actually get extra payments from health insurances if they put people into hospice and they die and those patients don’t even show up in the mortality rate, making the numbers look really good.

So, I wish I had better news here, but that’s the unfortunate reality and like I said, I will put a video beyond below this video to provide the evidence for what I’m saying here.  It is very unethical, makes you wonder what’s going on, on a bigger picture level. Is there some level of population control going on that hospitals want to kill people as quickly as possible which is clearly the case here in your dad’s situation, and why is the not asking him what he wants? That should be common sense, that would be a humane approach.

I don’t know whether your dad has an advanced care directive or not. If it does have an advanced care directive, well, it goes what’s in the advanced care directive. But even if there isn’t an advanced care directive, given that your dad can talk and can express his own wishes, what’s the issue? Like I said, what’s the urgency and the hurry to let someone die? It boggles my mind. Why are doctors and nurses in this profession if they want to rush towards killing someone? I don’t understand it.

But anyway, you are one step ahead here and you know what to do. You will also see that if you’re doing the research in your jurisdiction, I can see you are in New Jersey. In the US, you will see that when you do the research “medical decision making in New Jersey,” you will see that you or your dad will make the decision not the intensive care team. So, be one step ahead and just lastly, intensive care teams are very good at pretending they can do whatever they want. Well, nothing could be further from the truth. You need to step in there and you need to turn it all around. If you need help, you know where we are.

I have worked in critical care for nearly 25 years in three different countries where I also worked as a nurse manager for over 5 years. I’ve been consulting and advocating for families in intensive care since 2013 here at intensivecarehotline.com. I can say confidently, we have saved many lives with our consulting and advocacy, and you can verify that on our testimonial section as well as on our podcast section with some client interviews.

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