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YOUR INTENSIVE CARE HOTLINE - Quick Tip for Families in Intensive Care: We Should Focus on People Waking Up, Recovering, Walking Again, Rather Than Worry About Self-Extubation.

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Quick Tip for Families in Intensive Care: We Should Focus on People Waking Up, Recovering, Walking Again, Rather Than Worry About Self-Extubation.

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

So recently I was doing a podcast with one of our associates, Kali Dayton from Dayton ICU Consulting. Kali is a nurse practitioner in the US who has worked in ICU where they don’t sedate people even though they put them on a breathing tube and on a ventilator. So, in 99% of intensive care units, patients will be sedated and on a ventilator.

Now, Kali has shared in a podcast with me, which I link towards this video, that patients don’t need to be sedated and go into an induced coma because of mechanical ventilation and the breathing tube. That obviously offers an alternative, and it is a very innovative method to avoid harming the patients from an induced coma. And she said something that is really revealing on this podcast. She says, “We should be more afraid of people not being able to wake up, not being able to recover, not being able to walk again rather than self-extubate” because one of the reasons that patients are being put into an induced coma is to stop self-extubation, i.e., a premature extubation.

So, but the damage from that is that people won’t wake up. The damage from that is that people potentially can’t walk again. And we need to shift the focus from trying to wake people up as quickly as possible. And again, if you look at the podcast that I shared with Kali, you’ll find all the information in there and we’ll link to that podcast below this video. So that is my quick tip for today.

So, think twice when you agree to your loved one going into an induced coma because there is an alternative and it can make all the difference, and ICUs need to change in order to avoid harming patients in the long run. So that is my quick tip for today.

If you have a loved one in intensive care, 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] with your questions.

Also, have a look at our membership for families in intensive care at intensivecaresupport.org. There, you have access to me and my team 24 hours a day in a membership area and via email and we answer all questions intensive care related.

If you need a medical record review, please contact us as well. We review medical records in real time so that you can have a second opinion in real time. Also, if you need a medical record review after intensive care, please contact us as well. We review medical records after intensive care, if you have unanswered questions, if you need closure or if you’re simply suspecting medical negligence.

I also offer 1:1 consulting with clients, doctors, nurses. I can talk to doctors and nurses directly with you in intensive care in relation to treatment for your loved one. And again, giving you a second opinion and simply advocating for the best interests of your loved one.

So that’s my quick tip for today.

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Thanks for watching.

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

Take care.

 

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