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Quick Tip for Families in Intensive Care: Can intensivecarehotline.com Help Me with a Medical Malpractice Case for My Loved One in ICU?

Today, I have an email from Chao who wants to know whether we can help with the medical malpractice case of a patient that’s in ICU. The ICU wants to move them towards palliative care even though it’s a medical malpractice case. I will answer that question today.

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

So, I got an email from Chao who says,

“Hi, Patrik.

I was wondering if you would be willing to help me with a loved one in intensive care who’s critically ill. I have a lawyer that’s going to litigate a malpractice suit on tip of a bed sore case. I was wondering if you would sit in on multiple family meetings where they’re trying to push my loved one into comfort care. She has been in cardiac arrest in ICU for 7 months, and they say she’s not improving. They want to push her to palliative care and end of life care. Would you be willing to consult until the case is won?”

Well, thank you, Chao, for sharing this with me.

Absolutely, of course. We are used to winning cases here, and 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, how we have helped our clients to save their loved one’s life in ICU.

There’s really not a case we haven’t won. Of course, we cannot control whether people will survive or not. However, what we do control is to make sure that our clients get best care and treatment always, and we have helped so many clients now to stop intensive care teams from removing life support prematurely, because they just can’t do that. That is called either euthanasia, homicide, or potentially even murder, depending on which way you look at it, depending on your belief system, on your culture, on your religion, and it’s nothing they can do.

We’ve always turned around those situations over and over again, as long as our clients take advice. If they don’t take advice, then it’s up to them. But by us getting involved, like I said, we have a proven track record here that is documented on our intensivecarehotline.com testimonial section, and it’s documented on our intensivecarehotline.com podcast section where we’ve done client interviews.

If your family member has been in ICU for 7 months now and it’s secondary to potentially a bed sore that was caused by the hospital, they should be moving heaven and earth to get the best outcome for your family member, and not just move her to palliative care if that’s not what you want and if that is not what she wants. You will need legal and medical advocacy in a situation like that because the hospital cannot keep pushing for comfort care or end of life care without you or your family member’s consent, and you have absolutely legitimate concerns about neglect and the pending malpractice suit over a bed sore.

So, I can absolutely attend the family meetings to help you ask the right questions and ensure you’re not pressured into decisions that don’t align with you or with your loved ones’ wishes or medical rights even. I cannot believe how many families in intensive care are willing to be walked all over, just by intensive care team saying, “Oh, well, it’s in the ‘best interest’ of your family member to die, and therefore, we would just remove life support tomorrow.” That is unbelievable that (A), ICUs are doing that and (B), families just go along to get along. Stop doing that.

Also, I can help you, or me and my team can help you prepare statements or questions in advance to strengthen your case and strengthen your position. And of course, me and my team can stay on as consultants and advocates during the litigation period to assist with medical documentation, care decisions, and communication strategies with hospital staff and your legal counsel.

If you’d like to proceed, I need more information. When is the family meeting scheduled? What’s the name and location of the hospital? Share some medical summary of your loved one’s condition, of course, current level of responsiveness and recent changes. Get access to all medical records. I can help you with that step by step.

But it is really unbelievable to me how many families in intensive care just give in and let their loved ones die in front of their very eyes because the intensive care team said so without getting a second opinion, without getting consulting and advocacy. I can’t believe 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. That’s exactly what 99.9% of families in intensive care are up against. They do not know what they don’t know. They don’t know how to manage intensive care teams, so they manage you, and you don’t even see it. You need to start managing them, so you’re not getting into those situations in the first place.

That’s what I learned in over 25 years of critical care nursing in three different countries, where I worked as a nurse manager for over 5 years in critical care. I’ve been consulting and advocating for families in intensive care since 2013 here at intensivecarehotline.com. I can very confidently say that we have saved many lives for our clients in intensive care. You can verify that if you go to our intensivecarehotline.com testimonial section at intensivecarehotline.com or if you go to intensivecarehotline.com podcast section where we have done client interviews because our advice is absolutely life changing. It’s absolutely life-changing.

If you talk to me for an hour, you will have a completely different perspective and you will be armed with tools that you didn’t simply didn’t have before. You all of a sudden have tools, how you manage intensive care teams, and it’s not the other way around. That’s why our advice is life-changing, and we make sure that you improve your life instantly, making sure that you make informed decisions, have peace of mind control, power, and influence, making sure your loved one gets best care and treatment always.

That’s why I do one on one consulting and advocacy over the phone, Zoom, WhatsApp, whichever medium works best for you. You can join a growing number of members and clients that we have helped over the years. Again, making sure they make informed decisions, have peace of mind, control, power, and influence, making sure their loved ones get best care and treatment always because we understand intensive care inside out.

With the one on one consulting and advocacy, I talk to you and your families directly. I handhold you through this once in a lifetime situation that you can’t afford to get wrong. As part of this, I also talk to doctors and nurses directly. When I talk to doctors and nurses directly with you or on your behalf, I’ll set you up with the right questions to ask. That’s when you will see the dynamics changing because 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.

We also have a membership for families of critically ill patients in intensive care. You can become a member if you go to intensivecarehotline.com, if you 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 the membership area and via email, and we answer all questions intensive care related. In the membership, you also have exclusive access to 21 videos and 21 e-books that only are exclusively accessible to our members. All of that 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.

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.

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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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