How to take control ifyour loved one has a severe brain injury and is critically ill in IntensiveCare
Published: Tue, 08/27/13
your loved one has a severe brain injury and is critically ill in
Intensive Care
Posted: 22 Aug 2013 04:01 PM PDT
Hi, it's Patrik Hutzel from INTENSIVECAREHOTLINE.COM with another
weekly update.
In this week's blog I want to show you
"How to take control if your loved one has a severe brain injury
and is critically ill in Intensive Care"
If your loved one has been admitted to Intensive Care with a severe
brain injury, chances are that you don't really know what it all
means and what to do next.
In fact, if your loved one has been admitted to Intensive Care with
a severe head injury and has been placed in an induced coma on a
ventilator, with lots of tubes coming out of your loved one's body,
you are probably devastated and you feel like so many other
Families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care, helpless,
vulnerable and out of your comfort zone.
To make matters worse, Intensive Care Units are pretty quick in
painting a doom and gloom picture for severe head injuries and they
are very quick in breaking bad news for you and for your Family and
their first response is often that your loved one has a very poor
prognosis.
Brain injuries are very different from any other admission
diagnosis to Intensive Care and the major difference is
continue reading here
http://intensivecarehotline.com/take-control-loved-one-severe-brain-injury-critically-ill-intensive-care/