Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip and questions answered for families in intensive care. So Betty writes, my five-year-old granddaughter has a large VSD which stands for ventricular septal defect and pulmonary hypertension. She was admitted to ICU unresponsive after a seizure, she wasn’t breathing. She was ventilated after heavy paralyzing. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: When to Attend Family Meetings in Intensive Care and How to Prepare?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. Today’s tip is about family meetings in intensive care. Now, if you have a loved one in the intensive care, the Intensive Care team might ask you for a family meeting and they might often ask you for that last-minute. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: Does My Preemie Baby Need a Tracheostomy After Being Ventilated and Sedated?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel here from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. Yesterday, I had an email from Cynthia and Cynthia writes, my baby was a preemie baby and had a brain scan complete after birth, which was normal, but he wasn’t thriving so they use the cooling blanket for three. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: How Long Does it Take to Recover After Subarachnoid Haemorrhage in ICU?
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 she said that her husband was 62, had a subarachnoid hemorrhage two days ago and within 24 hours the Intensive Care team told her that it’s quote-unquote in the best interest for. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: How Can My Brother Be Weaned Off Ventilation and Wake Up From Sedation?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. I had an email today from Simone and Simone writes, my brother had lung failure and was rushed to hospital last week. My brother is 47 and the doctor said he’s critically ill so they put him in an induced. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: Can my Wife Come Off the Ventilator and Tracheostomy and Avoid LTAC?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip and question answered for families in intensive care. So I had an email from Dale and Dale writes, my wife has been in intensive care for eight weeks for a VP shunt valve failure and multiple shunt revision surgeries. She’s been on the ventilator for. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: How to Get Henry’s Ventilated Son Home from Intensive Care!
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. So Henry writes in and he says, my son is 34, he has severe cerebral palsy with the tracheostomy and a feeding tube and oxygen. He lives at home with me and he has been in ICU since July the. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: If an ICU Patient Isn’t Getting Enteral Feeds, They Need TPN Instead!
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 has their loved one in ICU with a massive GI bleed. GI Bleed is a gastrointestinal bleed, also known as a bleed in the bowel. It’s in the rectum or even in the. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: What To Look For if Your Loved One is Going to LTAC from ICU!
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 had their mother in LTAC or long term acute care for about a week and then she went into pulmonary edema. My client’s mother went into pulmonary edema and she had to. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: What to Look for If Your Child Isn’t Waking Up After ASD Surgery!
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. Yesterday, I had an email from one of our email subscribers, Clint, and he says that his four-year old daughter had ASD surgery. ASD stands for atrial septal defect and often the only remedy for that is to do surgery. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: Who Needs to Be Involved to Remove a Tracheostomy?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. Today’s tip is for families who have a loved one in intensive care with a tracheostomy and all they’re waiting for is to have the tracheostomy removed after they’ve been successfully weaned off the ventilator. So if your loved one. Continue Reading »
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: How to Obtain Guardianship for Your Loved One in Intensive Care?
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’re offering the position where the intensive care team wants to remove guardianship or medical power of attorney status from the families in intensive care, even though they have their mom,. Continue Reading »