The 5 things you didn't know you need doing whilst your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care!
Published: Fri, 12/20/13
one is critically ill in Intensive Care!
Hi, it's Patrik Hutzel from INTENSIVECAREHOTLINE.COM , where we
instantly improve the lives of Families of critically ill Patients
in Intensive Care, so that you can have real power, real control
and so that you can influence decision making, even if you're
not a doctor or a nurse in Intensive Care!
In last week's blog I gave you "The 5 reasons why you need
to be difficult and demanding when your loved one is critically ill
in Intensive Care". You can read, watch or listen to last
week's update here. http://intensivecarehotline.com/?p=4248
In this week's blog I want to talk about "The 5 things you
didn't know you need doing whilst your loved one is critically
ill in Intensive Care!"
If one of your Family members has just been admitted to Intensive
Care and is being treated there for critical illness, there is a
very high chance that you and your Family feel very vulnerable,
overwhelmed, frustrated, out of control, powerless without having
any influence, you feel challenged and you are probably left
struggling with this new situation that you, your Family and your
critically ill loved have found yourself in.
Worst of all, you feel like the decision making process around the
treatment, prognosis and diagnosis for your critically ill loved is
more often than not made without your consultation and input. After
all, the Intensive Care team should know best, shouldn't they?
And that's what the Intensive Care team will tell you
implicitly or explicitly that they "know" what's
best...
During a time of crises, you need to know what to do
During a time of crisis like this, it's very easy to get caught
in the opinions of "experts" and it's very easy to
lose sight of what's important. Your emotions are probably
running wild and you haven't eaten or slept properly and you
have probably spent day and night in Intensive Care to be with your
critically ill loved one! You are probably physically and mentally
exhausted and you and your Family don't know what lies ahead...
Rather than blindly following the Intensive Care team's
expertise, you may also consider doing your own research. After all
there are many moving parts in a busy Intensive Care Unit that you
and your Family are unaware of and those moving parts "behind
the scene" so to speak, often have a dramatic impact on how
the Intensive Care team positions themselves and also positions the
prognosis and diagnosis of your critically ill loved one...
If you don't have the knowledge about the "behind the
scenes" movements of an Intensive Care Unit and if you are
unaware of the intrigue, the politics and the Psychology at play in
an Intensive Care Unit, you will do what 99% of Families of
Critically ill Patients in Intensive Care do and follow the
Intensive Care team blindly...
after all you don't know what you don't know... and if you
happen to follow the Intensive Care team blindly you'll wind up
having no control, power and no influence and you, your Family and
your critically ill loved one are at the complete and total mercy
of the Intensive Care team. Not a good position to be in.
Going against the grain is often your best bet, so to speak
If you want to be in that 1% bracket of Families of critically ill
Patients in Intensive Care who have control, power and influence
you need to go against the grain, you need to educate yourself and
you need to get a different perspective!
More importantly you need to educate yourself on the secrets of
Intensive Care and therefore I want to give you some of those
secrets that will leverage your control, power and influence whilst
your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care.
I therefore give you "The 5 things you didn't know you
need doing whilst your loved one is critically ill in Intensive
Care!"
Once you know those 5 things you will set yourself
apart from 99% of the Families of critically ill Patients in
Intensive Care and you will find that if you apply the secrets that
you learn at INTENSIVECAREHOTLINE.COM you will turn the tables in
your favour and you will have control, power and influence!
Again, before I dive into "The 5 things you didn't know
you need doing whilst your loved one is critically ill in Intensive
Care!" you need to be aware that what I'm giving you here
is contrarian advice to what everybody else is doing. Everybody
else will just follow the herd or even worse will follow the
Intensive Care team blindly...
1. Always question the prognosis and diagnosis for your
critically ill loved one given to you by the Intensive Care team
CONTINUE READING and get all 5 things you didn't know by
clicking on this link
http://intensivecarehotline.com/?p=4422
You can also check out the weekly question that I answer here, with
this week's question
"The 5 things you need to know if your critically ill loved
one is in Intensive Care with a severe head injury or a traumatic
brain injury"
http://intensivecarehotline.com/?p=4443