Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care! Today, I had an email from a client and the client is asking who is saying that her mother has been in intensive care for two weeks now after pulmonary fibrosis that developed into ARDS or lung failure. The doctors. Continue Reading »
Quick tip for families in Intensive Care: Should your loved one go to LTAC after AAA repair or go home
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. Yesterday I was talking to a client and her dad had a Triple-A repair(AAA) in early March. Now the time of this video recording is early May. So had a Triple-A repair in early March ended up ventilated with a. Continue Reading »
INTENSIVE CARE HOTLINE PODCAST: My Dad has been in ICU with tracheostomy and ventilation for 11 months! The ICU team wants to tell us what’s in the best interest for our Dad and it’s wrong!
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSHi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from INTENSIVECAREHOTLINE.COM where we instantly improve the lives for Families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care, so that you can make informed decisions, have PEACE OF MIND, real power, real control and so that you can influence decision making fast, even. Continue Reading »
Quick tip for families in Intensive Care: Should you go to a family meeting with the ICU team?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from Intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in Intensive Care. Many families in Intensive Care come to us and they say, “ Look my dad or my mom is in ICU and they’ve had a cardiac arrest, or they had a stroke” and they say things like, “Tomorrow at one. Continue Reading »
Quick tip for families in ICU: Can your loved-one in ICU be extubated whilst still being on sedation and avoid a tracheostomy
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from Intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in Intensive Care. Yesterday, Denise called me, and she has her three-months-old son in Intensive Care and he’s been ventilated now for a couple of weeks. Intensive care team wants to proceed to a tracheostomy and Denise is asking if that’s the right. Continue Reading »
Quick tip for families in Intensive Care: Be aware of ventilation, tracheostomy and LTAC
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from Intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in Intensive Care. This morning, I was actually talking to two clients who faced the similar situation. Basically, their loved ones had been in ICU for about two weeks on a ventilator with the breathing tube after cardiac arrests and after a stroke,. Continue Reading »
Quick tip for families in Intensive Care: Why LTAC is dangerous for ventilated Patients with tracheostomy
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from Intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in Intensive Care. Yesterday, I had Miranda writing and she says that she’s in Ohio in the United States and she says her mum has just been transferred from ICU to LTAC or long-term acute care after she had a tracheostomy and her. Continue Reading »
Quick tip for families in ICU: What to look for when your loved one isn’t waking up after Induced Coma.
Hi! It’s Patrik Hutzel from Intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in Intensive Care. This morning, Tony called and Tony is one of our clients and he asked that his mum is not waking up after an induced coma. She’s been in the induced coma for seven days for a septic shock. So she’s. Continue Reading »
Quick tip for families in ICU: Is a tracheostomy necessary after multiple failed extubations?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from Intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in Intensive Care. Yesterday, Ruby sent an email and asks that her dad has been in ICU now for three weeks and he has been intubated three times and he got extubated three times. Now, he’s been intubated for the fourth time and. Continue Reading »
Quick tip for families in Intensive Care: Do you need to give consent to brain death testing?
Hi! It’s Patrik Hutzel from Intensivecarehotline.com with another quick update and tip for families in Intensive Care. Now, currently we’re working with a client who has their dad in ICU after cardiac arrest and potentially hypoxic brain injury. Now after a week in ICU, the hypoxic brain injury apparently is turning into a brain death. Continue Reading »
Quick tip for families in Intensive Care: Is Tracheostomy the Next Step when on Non-Invasive BIPAP?
Hi! It’s Patrik Hutzel here from Intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in Intensive Care. Yesterday, I had a client contact me and she said that her mom has been in ICU now for two weeks on non-invasive BiPAP for high CO2 levels or high carbon dioxide levels and there’s a very good chance. Continue Reading »
Quick tip for families in Intensive Care: Never let your loved one go to LTAC!
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from Intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in Intensive Care. Currently, we’re working with a client who’s had their mother in LTAC or Long-Term Acute Care and as you’ve heard me say before long-term acute care for patients on ventilation with tracheostomy are simply a disaster. There are no qualified. Continue Reading »