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 PEACE OF MIND, real power, real control and so that you can influence decision making FAST, even if you’re not a doctor or a nurse in Intensive Care!
In last week’s PODCAST I interviewed Andy from the UK
INTERVIEW WITH ANDY WHO’S PARTNER WAS IN INTENSIVE CARE WITH A BLEED ON THE BRAIN!
You can check out last week’s PODCAST by clicking on the link here.
In this week’s BLOG I want to share with
you
"5 REASONS WHY YOU NEED TO GET INVOLVED IN DECISION MAKING IN INTENSIVE CARE!"
If your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care, chances are that you and your family feel like you’ve lost
control over your and your loved one’s life.
You feel like the Intensive Care team has the upper hand and is making many
crucial and often life or death decisions- without actually really talking to you or explaining to you the very crucial insider knowledge that leads to those decisions!
The Intensive Care team feel like “fish in water” and you and your family feel like “fish out of water”, meaning you and your family are completely outside of your comfort zone and you are extremely vulnerable.
The Intensive care team is making many decisions without often sitting down with you and your family so that you really understand what’s happening.
In the meantime your stress levels, your fears, your frustrations, your anxieties and your level of vulnerability have all but gone through the roof!
The fear of the unknown and other people running the show is what is the most frustrating to you, as well as not knowing what the next few days or even the next few hours have in stall.
But especially with this lack of communication from Intensive Care teams and explaining to you in detail when your loved one is
- very unstable and in a very critical condition
- in a life threatening situation
you can’t afford to passively sit on the sidelines and watch an event go by that could potentially cost the life of your critically ill loved one!
You can’t potentially be doing what 99% of families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care are doing, who don’t question, who don’t challenge and as a direct result of their inaction don’t have PEACE OF MIND, control, power and influence!
You need to get involved and you need to get as much information as possible in a very short period of time. This is possible with all the information we provide at INTENSIVECAREHOTLINE.COM
The truth of the matter is that Intensive Care teams are often not transparent in their dealings with families and they often hide behind their
medical jargon and their medical terminologies.
They often do this for very good reasons, and mainly because there are just
simply too many things happening “BEHIND THE SCENES” in Intensive Care that almost always impact on how the Intensive Care team frames and positions your critically ill loved one’s prognosis, diagnosis and their treatment!
Are Intensive Care teams the only “smart” one’s in the room?
After all they are the “smart” ones right?
I’m glad you’ve asked.
With the rise of the internet and with the rise of having so much information at your disposal, even in such specialised areas like Intensive Care, you can now flip the coin and you can now relatively
easily turn the tables in your favour if you are prepared to do your own research.
And that’s exactly why it’s so important and that’s exactly why you need to get involved in decision making in Intensive Care, when your
loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care.
In fact there are 5 distinct reasons why you need to get involved in
decision making in Intensive Care and here they are
- The stuff that’s happening “BEHIND THE SCENES” in Intensive Care is way too powerful and almost always impacts on how the Intensive Care team frames and positions your critically ill loved one’s
prognosis, diagnosis and their treatment! It’s therefore that you can’t afford to ignore what’s happening “BEHIND THE SCENES” in Intensive Care!
Intensive Care is a very intriguing and dynamic place and the stuff you don’t see, the stuff that’s happening “BEHIND THE SCENES” in Intensive Care, nine times out of ten always impacts in how the Intensive Care team frames and positions your critically ill loved one’s
prognosis, diagnosis and treatment.
What does that mean?
It means that the minute your critically ill loved one is
- very unstable and in a very critical condition
- in a life threatening situation
that’s the minute, the tension is high within Intensive Care teams and within Families of critically ill Patients!
You and your family have no idea that the politics, the hierarchy, the fight for limited resources, the big egos of some doctors, the psychology, the dynamics and the intrigue “BEHIND THE SCENES” in Intensive Care almost always impacts on how the Intensive Care team frames and positions your critically ill loved one’s
prognosis, diagnosis and their treatment!
There are just too many competing interests in Intensive Care that compete and
fight for their attention that if you don’t know, if you don’t understand and if you don’t learn what’s happening “BEHIND THE SCENES” in Intensive Care, you stand no chance in “winning” this uphill battle.
The Intensive Care team knows how to play this “high stakes game” and they know how to win, in order to get what they want.
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- Intensive Care teams often don’t feel the need to be open and transparent and explain things in a language that you and your family can understand
Intensive Care teams often hide behind their medical jargon, they hide behind being the “smart ones”, without actually making the effort to compassionately and empathetically explain the very things that are happening with your critically ill loved one in a language and in a way that you can understand so that you can relate.
If you search on the Internet for information about Intensive Care, you’ll find research papers written from doctors for doctors!
Unlike INTENSIVECAREHOTLINE.COM where you find information about Intensive Care that you understand, research papers have no purpose to make the information palatable, transparent and Patient and family friendly.
Thankfully you have come to the right place if your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care, because we at INTENSIVECAREHOTLINE.COM have information available for you that is written and spoken in a Patient and family friendly language that you can understand!
No hiding behind medical jargon, we give it all to you so that you can have PEACE OF MIND, control, power and
influence!
- Family meetings in Intensive Care are often being used to again, frame and position your
critically ill loved one’s prognosis and diagnosis, if you don’t know how to position yourself correctly!
If your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care and you are confronted with challenging, unpleasant and dire circumstances, 9 times out of 10 the Intensive Care team will ask you for a
“formal family meeting”!
Whenever Intensive Care teams ask you and your family for a “formal family meeting” the Intensive Care team often uses those meetings to “cement” their (often negative) positioning and they
often use their “perceived power” and their “perceived authority” to consciously or unconsciously know that they are the ones calling the shots or “running the show”!
99% of families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care have no PEACE OF MIND, no control, no power and no influence, because they either don’t question, they don’t do their own research and they are ill- or unprepared when it comes to Family meetings with the Intensive Care team.
Often Families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care get “walked all over” by the “all powerful” Intensive Care team in Family meetings because they don’t know how to correctly position their critically ill loved one’s situation!
In a unique and “ONCE IN A
LIFETIME” situation where you are having a loved one critically ill in Intensive Care, you can’t afford to getting things wrong and you need to very quickly get a handle on things without being “run over” by the Intensive Care team!
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- Intensive Care Units often have hidden agendas and interests that go “way beyond” your critically ill loved one’s prognosis, diagnosis and
treatment
Intensive Care teams often have “hidden agendas” that go way beyond your critically ill loved one’s prognosis, diagnosis and treatment!
Intensive Care teams have interests that more often than not focus on
- The financial interests ($$$) of the Intensive Care Units, i.e. do they expect that they will make money or lose money when continuing to treat your critically ill loved one?
- The bed management interests of the Intensive Care team, i.e. does the Intensive Care team have more admissions competing for scarce, expensive, “in—demand” and precious ICU beds and they therefore may suggest to stop or “withdraw treatment” for Patients where they have no or a lesser interest in treating?
- The medical research interests. Intensive Care Units often get 5, 6 or even 7 figure $$$ funding per year for medical research! That means that critically ill Patients in Intensive Care being enrolled in a medical research study may get preference compared to the ones who aren’t! Your job is to mindful of this and your
job is to check whether your critically ill loved one is enrolled in a medical research study and if you and/or your loved one have given verbal or written consent!
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- Intensive Care teams are often negative and they try
to diminish your hope
The number of times Intensive Care teams are negative, trying to diminish your hope has come to a point where I think some Doctors should start questioning their negative approach and their integrity!
The bottom line is that where there’s life there’s hope!
Intensive Care teams are almost always negative just simply because it helps them to “cement” their “perceived power” and their “perceived authority”!
Being negative helps Intensive Care teams to drive their mainly “hidden agenda” and it helps them to keep you and your family at “arm’s length”!
Being negative helps Intensive Care teams to make sure that you and your family don’t become to “difficult and demanding”!
Being negative helps Intensive Care teams to prevent Families from legally suing them in case they predict a positive outcome and then things don’t work out as planned.
Your job as always is to stay strong, stay positive and to do your own research so that you have PEACE OF MIND, control, power and influence!
Your friend
Patrik Hutzel
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