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Quick Tip for Families in Intensive Care: Not Being Able to Have Control Over Any Steps in the ICU

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

So we get a lot of emails from readers and subscribers and we ask them when they opt in for their free instant impact report for families in intensive care. What’s their biggest frustration? And here is an interesting frustration that we have this week, a reader saying, “Not being able to have any control over any of the steps in ICU”.

Whilst I can see that this is a frustration for you, there’s a remedy to that. I can understand that you feel completely powerless when you first have a loved one in intensive care. I get that, that’s one of the reasons why I started this channel and started this website because I know intimately how families in intensive care feel.

However, here is the big differentiator between families in intensive care, who get what they want and who manage intensive care teams rather than intensive care teams and managing them. You may feel at the moment, what are you talking about? What am I talking about, managing intensive care teams, is that even possible? Absolutely yes. absolutely. Yes. You need to start managing the intensive care team so that they don’t manage you. And how can you do that?

Well, you can only do that by starting with doing your own research and you can only really do that by creating a professional team around you that understands intensive care inside out and that understands intensive care just as much as the intensive care team understands it so that you can get a second opinion and most importantly, make informed decisions, have peace of mind, control, power, and influence something that you think is not possible.

But the reality is that the families that go on all in, get help through us and also take responsibility for the outcomes, by making a statement like that you’re making, you’re not taking responsibility for the outcomes, you need to take responsibility for the outcomes and once again, not make excuses.

We have families sometimes calling us and saying, “Look, tomorrow the intensive care team wants to stop treatment for my loved one, wants to withdraw life support against our wishes without our consent”. And that is illegal. That’s a crime. And we have not lost one client in a situation like that. As long as families are working with us and take advice. So you have control in intensive care. As long as you take advice, you’re all in and you’re not dabbling around and you’re taking responsibility for the outcomes. It all comes down to taking responsibility for the outcomes. And it all comes down to you, taking responsibility, managing intensive care teams, not letting them manage you.

The good news is, there’s help at hand. That’s what we do. We turn situations around. We have so many case studies on our website, and so many testimonials we have interviews with clients on our podcast section to verify what I’m saying is accurate.

In any case, if you need help, when you have a loved one in intensive care and you go all in and you take responsibility, full responsibility, and you don’t make excuses, we are here to help. Go to intensivecarehotline.com. Call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or simply send us an email to [email protected]. 

Also, we have a membership for families in intensive care at intensivecarehotline.com. When you click on the membership link or go to intensivecaresupport.org directly. In the membership, you have access to me and my team 24 hours a day in the membership area and via email and we answer all questions intensive care related so that you can take control of the steps that are happening in intensive care. I also offer one-on-one consulting advocacy for families in intensive care. I talk to you directly. I talked to doctors and nurses directly and I ask all the questions you haven’t even considered asking but must be asked so that you can make informed decisions, and have peace of mind, control, power and influence.

I have worked in intensive care for over 20 years in three different countries where I also worked as a nurse unit manager for over five years. And I have been consulting and advocating for families in intensive care all around the world for over 10 years now. And it’s obvious that we are getting results for our clients. Just once again, look at the testimonial section or look at our podcast interviews with clients.

I also represent you in family meetings with intensive care teams, once again, making sure you are not getting walked all over. I have been in hundreds of family meetings with intensive care teams and it is critically important that you have an advocate by your side so that you can manage intensive care teams and not vice versa. I know exactly what’s happening in those meetings and I know how to position your loved one’s case so that they get the best care and treatment.

Also, we review medical records in real time so that you can have another second opinion in real time. Again, reach out to us, we also review medical records after intensive care if you have unanswered questions if you need closure or if you are simply suspecting medical negligence.

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And thank you so much for watching.

This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com, and I will talk to you in a few days.

Take care for now.