Critical Care

Critical care at home

Salient Points for Discussion

What is Carefirst Critical Care?

Critical care at home is no longer a new concept. With the advances of modern medicine, miniaturization of medical equipment, impact of ICT and ready availability of trained care givers, ‘ICU at home’ is a now a reality in Indian cities.

More and more families, as recommended by their patient’s treating doctor are deciding to avail home healthcare to provide critical care to their loved ones. Here are the natural advantages of home healthcare:

faster recovery amidst family and home surrounding,
significant cost savings,
negligible infection risk,
flexibility of length of stay, and,
considerable time and energy savings for the caregivers in the family.

But there are some active interventions that can only be done in a medical facility and some critical cases that need 24X7 monitoring of intensivists. These can’t be provided in a home setting. Once a patient is no longer in a life threatening situation and no hospital-grade interventions are necessary, home healthcare can take over the recovery of such patients.

Patients who can be provided critical care at home:

In general, any patient who is no longer in a life threatening situation and no hospital-grade interventions are necessary. More specific cases are:

Patients discharged from hospital from an acute phase of respiratory illness like COPD, acute oncology episode, a heart attack, or stroke or CVA (cerebrovascular accident).
Prolonged ICU treatment. Remove the 24X7 noise and blinding light of an ICU and combine the advantages and peace of home.
Dependent on medical equipment and round the clock monitoring

Now avail the attention and care of our resident doctors, ICU-trained nursing staff, therapists (physio and speech), and medical equipment experts, at significantly lesser costs compared to in-patient hospitalization expenses for same length of service. Chances of recovery is higher while getting healed at home, and also reduces the risk of secondary infection considerably.

What does Carefirst’s Criticare (CCR) package include?

Our resident doctor will remotely monitor patient’s vitals and provide teleconsultation on a daily basis.
A dedicated nursing manager will lead the nursing staff deployed for your patient, and will ensure treatment is progressing according to the discharge summary and treating doctor’s recommendation.
A 24-hour ICU trained medical nurse for round the clock patient monitoring, care and reporting to nursing manager
A 24-hour on-site ICU certified nursing attendant to cater to patient’s activities of daily living (ADL) and assist the on-duty medical nurse.
Patient party reporting via dedicated WhatsApp group during our length of service. The dedicated nursing manager, medical nurse/s allocated to concerned patient and 1 person from patient family will be the members in this group.

What is the difference between Carefirst’s Criticare (CCR) package and Critical Care services?

As customers of a package like Criticare (CCR), you will get 2 distinct advantages. These are (1) Cost benefit of service bundling and (2) comprehensiveness of a pre-designed package removing the hassle to choose individual components like nursing, medical equipment, doctor consultation and physiotherapy.

However all our customers have access to our complete service suite at all times. Carefirst’s commitment of compassionate and effective care in the comfort of your home leading to a comprehensive recovery and quality of life for your loved ones is available to every patient we serve, irrespective of the service they choose.

For more information on Carefirst Criticare (CCR), please visit our packages page here.

Critical Care

Critical care at home

Salient Points for Discussion

What is Carefirst Critical Care?

Patients who can be provided critical care at home:

What does Carefirst’s Criticare (CCR) package include?

What is the difference between Carefirst’s Criticare (CCR) package and Critical Care services?

List of services provided by Carefirst

Nursing

Physiotherapy

Lab Tests

Elder Care

Critical Care

Counselling

Medical Equipment

Doctor Consultation

COVID Care

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