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Quick Tip for Families in Intensive Care: Thank You Patrik and His Amazing Team Helping My Husband to Get Extubated, No Tracheostomy Needed!

Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip, and today, a testimonial for families in intensive care.

So, we do have a membership for families of critically ill patients in intensive care where you have access to me and my team, 24 hours a day, in a membership area and via email.

We have a testimonial from one of our members that I want to read out today. Now, this member has also consulted with me over the phone. So, part of the membership is you could upgrade to the phone options as well if you wanted to talk to me and you get a 20% discount if you are a member.

But let’s get right to it where our member says,

“Hi Patrik and Intensive Care Hotline team,

My husband is finally out of ICU and in a hospital ward. He has been gaining his strength and movement back in leaps and bounds after being in ICU for 3 weeks.

I am absolutely grateful for Patrik’s and his team’s advice. The doctors thought my husband had a high chance of failing the second extubation. It’s really only because I knew what language to use and what questions to ask that they agreed to try again before doing a tracheostomy. But my husband did succeed with the second extubation by being put on a BIPAP and by being given some relaxant medication.

He moved from the BIPAP to nasal prongs on oxygen and then eventually breathing on his own. Oh my gosh! How much time was saved from being in ICU by Patrik’s guidance. A lot!!!

Since my husband is no longer in ICU, I’m forever grateful that this support was here. Patrik and his team are a real blessing to everyone who’s ever put in that situation.

Extraordinarily grateful. Thank you so much.”

Now, this was actually a client who was in ICU for about three weeks with aspiration pneumonia, failed the first extubation. Once the client was consulting with us directly, it looked to me like they hadn’t chosen the right time for extubation. So, it’s almost like they set up the client for failure of extubation and they had to resedate him, did a bronchoscopy, and then a few days later, eventually succeeded in extubated him, which is why we are here now.

It was absolutely critical to guide the client with the right questions. It was critical to identify what went wrong in the first extubation so that they could avoid the mistakes they’ve made in the first extubation.

Now, when you extubate a patient, which means removal of the breathing tube, really choosing the right window to do that is critical because you don’t want to reintubate a patient. You want to take out the breathing tube and it needs to stay out so that patients don’t need to go back on intubation with the breathing tube and then eventually end up with the tracheostomy. You want to avoid that as much as you can. Second time around, our client succeeded, which is really great, and that’s a real success story.

Now, in our membership for families of critically ill patients in intensive care, you have access to me and my team, 24 hours a day, in a membership area and via email and we answer all questions, intensive care related. You can get access to our membership by going to intensivecarehotline.com and clicking on the membership link or you go to intensivecaresupport.org directly.

Once you’re a member, you can also upgrade to phone consulting and advocacy options with myself. That way, I consult you and your families directly over the phone, Zoom, Skype, WhatsApp, whichever medium works best for you. I also talk to doctors and nurses directly making sure you are making informed decisions, having peace of mind, control, power, and influence.

I have worked in intensive care for over 20 years in three different countries where I also worked as a nurse unit manager for over five years, and I have been consulting and advocating for families in intensive care for over 10 years all over the world.

Now, I also represent you and your families in family meetings with intensive care teams. I make sure that you prepare well for those family meetings. I’m actually deciding whether you should go to a family meeting or not, then you might be surprised by me just saying that, but that’s part of my consulting, making sure that if you do go into a family meeting, that, (A), you have representation and, (B), that you are asking the right questions and that you are dictating the agenda and not the other way around.

We also offer medical record reviews in real time. We also offer medical record reviews after intensive care if you have unanswered questions, if you need closure, or if you are simply suspecting medical negligence. We do all of that here at intensivecarehotline.com. It’s critical that you get a second opinion when you have a loved one in intensive care, and this is often life or death. How can you not get a second opinion when it comes to life or death? Think about it.

All of it, 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].

Now, if you like my videos, subscribe to my YouTube channel for regular updates for families in intensive care. Click the like button, click the notification bell, share the video with your friends and families, and comment below what you want to see next or what questions and insights you have from this video.

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.