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Quick Tip for Families in Intensive Care: ICU Keeps Pushing Hospice for My Mom on a Vent and Tracheostomy But She Wants to Live!

The ICU team keeps pushing for hospice for my mom on a ventilator with a tracheostomy, but she wants to live. That’s what I’m going to talk to you about today.

My name is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care, because here, we help families of critically in patients in intensive care to make informed decisions, have peace of mind, control, power, and influence quickly, even if you’re not a doctor or a nurse in intensive care.

Today’s topic is, “The ICU team keeps pushing hospice for my mom on a ventilator with the tracheostomy, but she wants to live. Help!”

I have an email from Eva who says,

“Hi Patrik,

The ICU doctors keep pushing hospice care for my mom on a ventilator, with tracheostomy, even with improvement. She has end-stage kidney failure, and needs dialysis, but I need help because she wants to live.”

Let’s look at this. Let me ask you this to begin with. Is your loved one in ICU with a tracheostomy on a ventilator? Has the ICU team told you there’s nothing more we can do, or she has no quality of life, or you should consider hospice care? Even worse, are they saying that even though your mom is improving?

Unfortunately, you’re not alone. We get calls every day from families in your situation who are being pressured into end-of-life decisions, not because it’s what’s best for the patient, but because it’s what’s best for the hospital.

Let me repeat that. Many ICUs push hospice not because the patient is dying, but because they want the ICU bed back. Let me tell you what’s really going on.

Your mom has end-stage kidney failure. She’s on a ventilator, has had a tracheostomy, and now she needs dialysis. And despite all the fact she’s improving, and most importantly, she wants to live. Yet the ICU team is trying to override her will to live with a recommendation for a hospice. That’s completely unacceptable.

Here’s what they don’t tell you. Having a tracheostomy, being ventilator dependent with dialysis needs, doesn’t mean the end. It means she needs time, time to be stabilized, time to adjust, and most likely, time to be weaned off the ventilator. Or if she can’t be weaned, time to transition to long-term care at home with a tracheostomy, ventilator, and dialysis support with Intensive Care at Home. And you can find more information at intensivecareathome.com.

Yes, and you heard me right. It can be done at home. It’s absolutely possible to have someone live at home with a ventilator, tracheostomy, dialysis, with Intensive Care at Home.

Like I said, have a look at intensivecareathome.com, because we’ve helped many families in exactly your situation bring their loved ones home safely with 24/7 ICU-level care with Intensive Care at Home. Don’t let the ICU sell you on a death sentence when life is possible. Because here’s the truth. Hospice means no ventilator, no dialysis, and no active treatment. Means they’re withdrawing treatment. It’s the end.

If your mom is alert, fighting, stable, or improving and wants to live, then hospice is highly inappropriate. You need advocacy, you need information, you need power, control, and influence, and we can help you exactly to get that.

If you’re in this situation right now and you don’t know what to do, go to intensivecarehotline.com and call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or send us an email to [email protected]. And we’ll help you create a step-by-step plan to either keep your loved one alive, supported in ICU, or start the process to bring them home with 24/7 intensive care nursing at home, with intensivecareathome.com

Like I said, more information at intensivecareathome.com. Don’t let ICU make decisions for your mom that she doesn’t want. Take control, take action. We are here to help all every step of the way.

I have worked in critical care nursing for 25 years in 3 different countries where I worked as a nurse manager for over 5 years in intensive care. I’ve been consulting and advocating for families in intensive care since 2013 here at intensivecarehotline.com. I can very, very, very confidently say that we have saved many lives with our consulting and advocacy, because of our insights, and you can verify that on our testimonial section at intensivecarehotline.com. and you can verify it on our intensivecarehotline.com. podcast section. where we have done client interviews. Because our advice is absolutely life changing.

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 why we help you to improve your life instantly, making sure 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 you can join a growing number of members and clients that we have helped over the years, saving their loved ones’ lives.

That’s why I do one on one consulting and advocacy over the phone, Zoom, WhatsApp, whichever medium works best for you. I talk to you and your families directly. I hand hold you through this once in a lifetime situation that you simply cannot afford to get wrong, when I talk to families directly, I also talk to doctors and nurses directly, asking 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 in case you have unanswered questions, if you, if you need to or if you are suspecting medical negligence.

We also have 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 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 eBooks and 21 videos that I have personally written and recorded. And all of that will help you to improve your life instantly, 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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