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YOUR INTENSIVE CARE HOTLINE - Quick Tip for Families in Intensive Care: What’s the Reason My Mom Gets Re-sedated with a Pneumonia?

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Quick Tip for Families in Intensive Care: What’s the Reason My Mom Gets Re-sedated with a Pneumonia?

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

So, one of the most frequently asked questions we’re getting is, “How long does it take to wake up after an induced coma?” And here is a reason why someone doesn’t come out of an induced coma.

It’s very tangible and it comes right back to, that the biggest challenge for families in intensive care is simply that they don’t know what they don’t know. They don’t know what to look for. They don’t know what questions to ask. They don’t know their rights and they don’t know how to manage doctors and nurses in intensive care.

So, here’s the situation. So, client asks us, “Why does my mom not wake up after the induced coma?.  Why do they keep her sedated? How long will it take?” So, the answer to that question is that it really depends. And here, I have an answer for you. So, eventually, we got to on the phone with the doctors and we had to look at medical records. So, we got to look at medical records that the client provided to us. And then we found the answer pretty quickly. That’s because we understand intensive care inside out.

So, it turned out that our client’s mother had a severe pneumonia, and her oxygen levels went from 30% to 75%, and that’s very high. And when you have a patient on 75% of oxygen, you have to re-sedate them to (A), deal with the pneumonia, which is the cause for needing more oxygen. And then (B), you don’t want someone to awake if they are needing 75% of oxygen. Please bear in mind, room air, the air that you and I are breathing is 21% oxygen. So, that’s a significant increase in oxygen requirements. Therefore, you need to re-sedate a patient because if they start moving around and trying to breathe even, it gets their oxygen levels even lower. You got to preserve the organs by letting them perfuse properly with oxygen, by letting someone rest.

I hope that helps you understand. That’s one of the many reasons. There are dozens of other reasons why someone needs to be in an induced coma and why they’re not waking up. The devil is in the detail in intensive care, and we can help you piecing the puzzle together.

That’s my quick tip for today.

Now, 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].

Also, check out our membership for families in intensive care at intensivecaresupport.org.

If you need a medical record review for your loved one in intensive care or after intensive care, contact us as well, and we can help you with that. Especially, if you’re suspecting medical negligence, we can help you find out whether that was the case or not.

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Thanks for watching.

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

 

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