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

Today’s tip is about expecting two steps forward, and one step back on the way to recovery for your loved one. Let’s dive right into it.

But before we go into it, like this video, subscribe to my YouTube channel and comment below what you want to see next, or what insights you had from this video. So let’s dive right into it.

In another quick tip video, I did a few days ago, I was talking about one of our clients that we literally saved their life by advocating and also achieving the result of not withdrawing treatment because of our consulting and advocacy. And by basically understanding intensive care and the rights for families in intensive care inside out and that client has gone from withdrawal of life support, now to on their way to recovery. They had a tracheostomy going from a breathing tube to a tracheostomy instead of dying. That’s a big success.

But anyway, cutting a long story short, now that they’re on their way to recovery. They also have some setbacks. Again, it’s two steps forward, one step back, and I advise you to expect that and not to be discouraged. If you see two steps forward, one step back, don’t be discouraged by that. It happens in this situation that their loved one was weaned off the ventilator  for a couple of days, was on the trachy mask and then they ended up with a chest infection and they ended up back on the ventilator again. And now they’re off the ventilator after they’ve treated the infection.

So expect two steps forward, one step back. Don’t let the negativity of the intensive care team hold you back or hold you down. Just speak to someone who can advise you independently, and you can do that here at intensivecarehotline.com. So, you know, what’s going to come because we have recognized the patterns or I’ve recognized the patterns after having worked in intensive care for over 20 years. And now having advised and consulted for families in intensive care all over the world for the last eight years.

If you have a loved one in intensive care, go and check out intensivecarehotline.com. Call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website, or send us an email to [email protected].

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This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com. Thank you for watching and I’ll talk to you in a few days.