Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. So my quick tip today is, do you know your rights as a family or as a patient in intensive care? So I can’t tell you the amount of people that come to us here at intensivecarehotline.com and they tell. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: Is ICP & Tracheostomy Needed After Subarachnoid Haemorrhage in ICU?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. So my tip today is about brain bleeds or subarachnoid hemorrhages and intensive care unit stays or ICU stays. Many patients in intensive care that end up with a brain bleed or a subarachnoid hemorrhage end up on a ventilator. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: At What Stage is a Tracheostomy Absolutely Necessary in ICU?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. So today’s tip is about some questions that I had from a client and the client has their 94-year old mother in ICU after heart attacks, query stroke, also after CPR was performed after cardiac arrest and the client’s mother. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: The ICU Team is Only Telling You Half of the Story!
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. Today, I want to talk about, does the intensive care team only tell you half of the story? Now the quick answer is absolutely yes and why do I say that? So intensive care is a highly specialized area. It. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: What’s the Difference Between Palliative Care and Hospice?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. So we’re often hearing families asking us, what’s the difference between hospice and palliative care when patients are in intensive care? Now, as you may have heard me say before, especially if you are a regular viewer of my videos. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: For Covid-19 ARDS Should You Prone or ECMO?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. Today’s tip is about ARDS in ICU. ARDS also stands for lung failure in ICU and at the moment with COVID-19, ARDS seems to be everywhere because of the COVID-19 infections lead to ARDS or lung failure. So what we. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: Have You Given Up? Do This Instead!
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. So you’re close to giving up. I’ve seen it many, many times when families have a loved one in intensive care, they don’t know what they should be doing. They don’t know what they don’t know. They don’t know what. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: Is Withdrawing Treatment for COVID-19 and Leukaemia Euthanasia?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. Yesterday, I was talking to a client who has their 84-year old mother in intensive care. She caught COVID a couple of weeks ago, and she also has leukemia. The intensive care team is adamant that after five days of. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: Sitting Up 30 degrees for Nutrition Prevents Aspiration Pneumonia!
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. So something that we’re observing and I’ve also observed it in over 20 years of working in intensive care is simply when patients are on a ventilator in an induced coma, and they have a nasogastric tube in the nose. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: 16 weeks in ICU, is INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME the Right Next Step?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. So at the moment we’re talking to a client, who’s had their 82-year old mother in ICU for 16 weeks. Their mother has a tracheostomy and is fully ventilator-dependent and the family is asking whether intensive care at home is. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: Why is There a Delay with Tracheostomy for COVID-19 Patients in ICU?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. So what we’re currently seeing, especially with COVID goes rampant, especially in the Northern hemisphere in the United States and in the UK is that patients that should have a tracheostomy after day 10 to day 14 are not having. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: Prone Positioning for COVID-19 in Intensive Care!
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. So yesterday I was talking to a client who has their 61-year old mother in intensive care with COVID and their mother has been on the breathing tube for two weeks and she’s also in regular prone position. Now, when. Continue Reading »