Learn How to Keep Your Loved One Alive in ICU, Even If ICU Teams are Telling You They Won’t Survive! Quick Tip for Families in Intensive Care!

“Learn how to keep your loved one alive in intensive care, even if ICU teams are telling you your loved one won’t survive.”

My name is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com.

Today, I want to talk to you about something that is absolutely critical, something that most families in ICU are not being told. That is how to keep your loved one alive in ICU, even if ICU teams are telling you there is “no hope” or that your loved one “won’t survive.”

I see this every single day at intensivecarehotline.com where we consult and advocate for families in intensive care all around the world, and we’ve been doing so since 2013. Because here at intensivecarehotline.com, we help families of critically ill patients in intensive care to make informed decisions, have peace of mind, control, power, and influence fast, even if you’re not a doctor or a nurse in intensive care.

As you can imagine, families come to us distraught, overwhelmed, and often blindsided. They’ve been told by doctors and nurses that, “There’s nothing more we can do” or things like, “Your critically ill loved one will never recover,” or “We should consider end of life care.”

Sounds familiar? Well, here’s the truth. Just because the ICU team says your loved one won’t survive, doesn’t mean it’s actually true. So, let me say this again because it’s so important. Just because the ICU team says there is no hope doesn’t make it the truth.

Well, if you look at the actual research, research suggests 70 to 90% of intensive care patients survive. That’s the hidden truth that the intensive care team is not telling you. They’re trying to keep that away from you, because that means the odds are in your loved one’s favour. That’s not what they’re trying to tell you because the truth is, that ICU teams are often managing beds in ICU, they’re managing finances, not just patients and families.

One thing families in intensive care don’t realize is that ICU is under enormous pressure to manage resources including beds, staff, finances, equipment such as ventilators, and much more.

If your loved one is not waking up, not improving quickly, or not improving in a time frame that’s convenient for the intensive care team, or requires long-term intensive care, they may unfortunately be seen as a non-viable case, and that is extremely sad, but that’s also the reality.

That’s only a hospital perspective, not a family perspective, and certainly not a recovery perspective. That certainly shouldn’t put you off at all, because we’ve helped so many families in intensive care turning seemingly impossible situations around, that you shouldn’t fear having a loved one in intensive care, because it can be turned around.

Because we’ve helped hundreds, if not thousands, of families in the same situation over the many years, as a matter of fact, since 2013. Me and my team have worked with hundreds or thousands of families in intensive care all around the world.

They were told that their loved one would never recover, yet they did.