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If you want to know what to do when your loved one has been declared “brain dead,” stay tuned! I’ve got news for you.

My name is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care.

So today, I actually have another testimonial from one of our members and clients that I want to read out. But before we go there, yesterday, I made a video about the patient in ICU woke up after he’s been declared brain dead. I strongly encourage you to check out my video yesterday. But today, two-degree ties right in.

Let me read out the testimonial from our member and client, Crystal.

“Hi Patrik,

 I thank you and your team all so much for your assistance to us, for my mother-in-law, in your knowledge, care, and updates.” So, we were reviewing medical records as part of our client’s membership and we were giving them updates, recommendations, and second opinions daily.

The email continues.

“Your assistance helped us to be knowledgeable to converse with the doctors and the nurses about everything going on with her. If we didn’t have your help, then they would have just called her brain dead and pulled the plug after her stroke. Instead, my mother-in-law has continued to improve, and we know now what to ask and keep helping her at home. Thank you again, so very much for your service. This is so needed by all dealing with ICU and intensive care teams.

From, Crystal.”

Now, this is what you get when you sign up with us. 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. They don’t know how to manage doctors and nurses in intensive care. That is the biggest challenge.

Like I’ve said many times on this podcast here, I can confidently say that we have saved many lives for our clients who have loved ones in intensive care. You can verify that on our testimonial section at intensivecarehotline.com. You can also verify it on our intensivecarehotline.com podcast section where we’ve done client interviews. If you don’t get a second opinion in the ICU, I have no words for it because you are in a life-or-death situation that you simply cannot afford to get wrong. It’s like driving a car without a seatbelt, that’s how bad it is.

So, I have worked in critical care nursing for 25 years in three different countries where I worked as a nurse manager for over 5 years. I’ve been consulting and advocating for families in intensive care together with my team here at intensivecarehotline.com since 2013. Once again, I can confidently say that we have saved many lives as part of our consulting and advocacy. I’ve been in many family meetings with intensive care teams and clients, advocating for them, giving second opinions, and holding intensive care teams to account, and that’s part of our skill set as a professional consulting and advocacy service. Like I said, check out our testimonial section at intensivecarehotline.com to verify what I’m saying here and check out our intensivecarehotline.com podcast section where we’ve done client interviews.

We have helped hundreds of members and clients over the years, improving their lives instantly when they have a loved one in intensive care. That’s why we created a membership for families of critically ill patients in intensive care, and you can become a member if you go to intensivecarehotline.com if you go to our membership section, click on the membership link or if you go to intensivecaresupport.org directly. In the membership, 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. In the membership, you also have exclusive access to 21 eBooks and 21 videos that I have personally written and recorded. The access to myself and my team, and the eBooks and videos will help you to make informed decisions, have peace of mind, control, power, and influence, making sure your loved one gets best care and treatment always.

I also do one-on-one consulting and advocacy over the phone, Zoom, Skype, WhatsApp, whichever medium works best for you. I talk to you and your families directly. I talk to doctors and nurses directly. I handhold you through this once in a lifetime situation that you simply cannot afford to get wrong. When I talk to doctors and nurses directly, I ask all the questions that you haven’t even considered asking but must be asked when you have a loved one critically ill in intensive care.

I also represent you in family meetings with intensive care teams.

We also do medical record reviews in real time so that you can get a second opinion in real time. We also do medical record reviews after intensive care if you have unanswered questions, if you need closure, or if you are suspecting medical negligence.

All of that you get at 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.

If you like my videos, subscribe to my YouTube channel for regular updates for families in intensive care. Click the like button, click the notification bell, comment below what you want to see next, what questions and insights you have, and share this video with your friends and families.

I also do a weekly YouTube live where I answer your questions live on a show and you will get notification for the YouTube live if you are a subscriber to my YouTube channel, or if you are a subscriber to my intensivecarehotline.com email newsletter at intensivecarehotline.com.

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.

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