The 3 ways on how to ALWAYS be one step ahead of the Intensive Care team, if your loved one is critically ill in ICU
Published: Fri, 12/27/13
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 away "The 5 things you
didn't know you needed doing whilst 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=4422
In this week's blog I want to give you "The 3 ways on how
to ALWAYS be one step ahead of the Intensive Care team, if your
loved one is critically ill in ICU"
If one of your loved Family members has been admitted to Intensive
Care with critical illness, you would have found by now that the
Intensive Care team is running the show. Given the situation you,
your Family and your critically ill loved one are in, you feel
stressed, challenged, overwhelmed, anxious, out of your comfort
zone, you feel vulnerable and you have no idea what lies ahead.
Worst of all, the Intensive Care team is driving the bus and you
feel like you have no control, power and influence during this
stressful and challenging situation! More often than not, the
Intensive Care team is talking over you and at you, rather than
entering into a real dialogue and discussion. The situation you are
finding yourself in is anything but comforting.
Furthermore, the Intensive Care team is talking "Intensive
Care language" that you often don't understand and they
often don't make the effort to explain things to you in simple
and plain language. It's all part of the ball game and if you
don't know what to do and how to position your self, the
Intensive Care team holds all the power and is controlling the
situation.
What an awful situation to be in. Not only is one of your loved
Family members critically ill in Intensive Care, the worst feeling
is probably that you're at the mercy of the Intensive Care
team. That is if you follow conventional wisdom and if you do what
99% of Families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care do.
Wouldn't it be good to have control, power and influence whilst
your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care? Wouldn't it
even be better if you were ALWAYS one step ahead of the Intensive
Care team whilst your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care?
You might say, "Patrik, don't be stupid, there's no
way I can always be one step ahead of the Intensive Care team. They
have all the power, knowledge and control".
Well, know this. I have worked in Intensive Care for more than 15
years in three different countries and I have seen it all. I have
seen the games the Intensive Care teams are playing to keep
Families of critically ill Patients at arms' length. I have
seen Intensive Care teams "selling" to Patients and their
Families "that a withdrawal of treatment" is in 'the
best
interest' of your critically ill loved one, because he or she
wouldn't have any quality of life anyway".
As if anyone besides you and your Family knows what's
"best" or in
the "best interest" of your critically ill loved
one.
Little do those Families know that the Intensive Care team
thinks that the ongoing treatment of your critically ill loved one
is not seen as something financially viable or is seen as too
expensive.
Little do those Families know that the Intensive Care
team is desperately needing empty beds to accommodate new
admissions.
Little do those Families know that the treating
Consultant/ Physician of the Intensive Care team has no interest in
continuing treatment, because their loved one's case and
treatment is not of any interest for the Consultant's/
Physician's latest research thesis.
So, put your preconceived notions about Intensive Care aside and
come with me into the world where I show you "The 3 steps on
how to ALWAYS be one step ahead of the Intensive Care team, if your
loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care".
1. Don't buy into the "conventional wisdom" of
99% of Families
CONTINUE READING and get ALL 3 WAYS on how to ALWAYS be one step
ahead of the Intensive Care team by clicking on this link
http://intensivecarehotline.com/?p=4516
Also, check out this weeks "YOUR QUESTION ANSWERED"
section and this week I answer a reader's question on
"My 25 year old wife has been in ICU for one month with Tracheostomy
and is still in an induced coma. What do I need to do? Help!"
Check it out here http://intensivecarehotline.com/?p=4520