Transferring Critical care at home for a patient from an intensive care unit to a sanatorium allows them to receive intense care at home for a variety of logical, psychological, and medical reasons. Stated differently, the critical care unit at your house. Who are the patients in need of critical care, then?
In certain circumstances, intense care is still necessary even when the disease is no longer in a severe stage. A transfer home that can offer ongoing intensive care services in addition to home care may be beneficial for some individuals who are nearing the end of their lives. Extended stays in the critical care unit might postpone the initiation of rehabilitation therapy and raise the risk of nosocomial infections.
In general, patients recuperating from a protracted ICU stay, cases of neurological illness, situations involving multiple traumas, spinal/brain injuries, and patients undergoing transplantation are among those who may need intensive care. The list is vast and includes cases of cancer, respiratory diseases that are deadly, and situations involving tracheostomies and ventilators.
The advantages: Medical and personal
An extended stay in critical care raises the possibility of getting different drug-resistant illnesses and can cause the start of rehabilitation therapy to be delayed. Using home care services to help provide emergency medical care has various advantages.
Clinical
- Qualified, experienced staff, trained to international standards
- Minimal information gap between the care team and the treating doctor
- Structured communication between nurses, treating doctors and the family – enabled by technology, processes and proper documentation
- Utilizing the latest technologies to support the care processPersonal
- An environment with reduced noise and night-time light, assisting the return to a more physiological circadian rhythms and better sleep patterns
- More open visiting hours to allow unrestricted visits by relatives and friends
- Convenient access to personal belongings, such as books, computers, tablets, TV, music players, etc.
Maintaining intensive care at home is also a more economical and accessible option than receiving it in a hospital, enabling better patient requirements management.
“He came home to a hospital that was a mini-replica of an ICU,” stated a client of Indian Home Health Care (IHHC) whose spouse had been hospitalized for a catastrophic heart attack. Nearly the whole room was filled with everything you would expect to see in an intensive care unit, including beeping devices, glowing lights on monitors, and a faint sound coming from the ventilator (yep, my husband required one too). A dreamlike picture of an ICU adorned with all the latest medical technology. Naturally, the nursing staff adeptly supports all of this technology, having had training and experience with a software that replicates real-world settings using digital mannequins. I’m paying attention.
Other Management Criteria
In addition to the continuous monitoring of vitals and maintaining the highest standards of hygienic care and administration of medication, the tasks covered by a critical care team at home this entails carrying out the following duties in compliance with your doctor’s recommendations and the previously established care plan:
Treatment of patients with ventilated tracheostomies: CPAP, BiPAP, and/or high flow oxygen treatment patients
- Total parenteral nutrition
- Internal feeding
- Infusion therapy
- Bowel and bladder management
- Maintaining skin integrity
- The benefits to doctors
- Faster recovery of patients due to better treatment compliance
- Less chance of secondary infections
- improved therapeutic results leading to higher levels of patient satisfaction
- Reduced length of stay thus improving efficiency and throughput for the hospital
- The benefits to the patients
Faster recovery due to the comfort of being at home
- Better compliance.
- Significant cost saving as professional home health care is 60-70% less expensive than hospitals.
- A smoother discharge from the hospital guarantees a quicker recovery and return to normal life.