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Critical care at home
A full home ICU installed in your own room: ICU bed, ventilator or BiPAP, oxygen, monitor and infusion pumps, run by ICU-trained nurses around the clock. Equipment is chosen by clinical assessment, never sold as a fixed package.
Free assessment. We will tell you honestly if the patient should stay in hospital.
Quick answer
An ICU setup at home is a critical care environment installed in the patient's own room and run by ICU-trained nurses. It normally comprises an ICU bed, breathing support such as a ventilator or BiPAP, oxygen from a concentrator or cylinder, a multipara monitor, infusion and syringe pumps, a suction machine, a DVT pump and an alpha air mattress. The equipment is chosen by clinical assessment rather than sold as a fixed package.
Who runs it
Two ICU-trained nurses on 12-hour shifts, with nursing assistants
Suits
Long-stay patients where no active hospital intervention is expected
Also called
Home ICU, ICU care at home, ICU facility at home, critical care at home
An ICU at home is not one product but a set of devices, and not every patient needs all of them. The assessment decides which are installed, and most families already own one or two. Anything you do not have can be taken on rent rather than bought.
Breathes for a patient who cannot breathe adequately on their own. Always operated by an ICU-trained nurse, never by the family.
Critical level · ventilator-dependent patients
Non-invasive breathing support at two pressure levels, one for breathing in and a lower one for breathing out. No tube into the airway.
BiPAP on rent · COPD · sleep apnoea
Pulls oxygen out of room air, so it never runs empty and needs only a power point. The usual choice for continuous long-term oxygen.
Concentrator on rent · low-flow oxygen
Stored oxygen for higher flow rates than a concentrator manages, and the backup every home ICU needs against a power cut.
Cylinders on rent · high-flow · backup
Shows heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, respiration and temperature continuously, with alarms set to the patient's own thresholds.
Continuous vitals monitoring · alarm limits
Deliver fluids and drugs at an exact rate instead of by gravity drip, which matters where the dose has to be precise over hours.
Controlled infusion · all three levels
Clears secretions from the airway. Not optional for a tracheostomy or ventilated patient, and used many times a day.
Tracheostomy care · airway clearance
Height, backrest and knee adjustment with side rails, so one nurse can turn, sit up and transfer a patient without hurting either of them.
Hospital beds on rent · electric or manual
Cells inflate and deflate in cycles so the pressure points keep moving. The single most effective thing against bedsores in an immobile patient.
Bedsore prevention · immobile patients
Squeezes the calves in a cycle to keep blood moving, which is how you prevent a clot forming in a patient who has not walked for weeks.
Deep vein thrombosis prevention
Turns liquid medicine into a mist the patient breathes in, so it reaches the lungs directly rather than going through the stomach.
Asthma · COPD · chest infections
Most of this is taken on monthly rent, which is why a home setup is reachable at all. See the full equipment list.
Equipment on rentWorth being precise about, because the phrase "ICU at home" leads people to expect a hospital ICU relocated. It is not that, and the differences run in both directions.
| ICU setup at home | Hospital ICU | |
|---|---|---|
| Nurse to patient ratio | One to one, the whole shift | Typically one nurse to two or more beds |
| Doctor on the premises | No, your treating doctor is contacted | Intensivist on duty |
| Emergency response | Ambulance, so minutes away | Crash team, seconds away |
| Dialysis, imaging, surgery | Not available | On site |
| Hospital-acquired infection | Low, no shared ward | A known ward risk |
| Family presence | Unrestricted | Visiting hours |
| Best suited to | Long-stay patients, stable, no intervention expected | Anyone who may need intervention |
We turn down cases, and it is worth explaining which ones, because an agency that says yes to everything is not being kind to you. A home setup is safe for stable patients on a long recovery. It is dangerous for anyone who may need something a hospital has and a flat does not.
Stable, long-stay, no intervention expected
We will say so rather than take the booking
The decision is your treating doctor's, not ours and not yours alone. We will not install a setup against medical advice, and where a case sits on the line we would rather you spent another week in hospital than moved too early.
Which level applies is decided by clinical assessment against the patient's condition, not chosen from a menu.
Unstable, ventilator dependent
Moving from critical towards stable
Stable, mobility restricted
No two setups cost the same, because no two patients need the same equipment for the same length of time. These are the four things that actually move the number, so you can work out roughly where your case sits before you ring anyone.
A ventilator setup and an oxygen concentrator setup are not in the same range. The Critical level carries the most equipment, Supportive the least.
Plenty of families already have a hospital bed or a concentrator from an earlier illness. You rent only what is missing, and we will tell you if what you own is usable.
Round-the-clock cover is two nurses rotating. Some step-down and supportive patients manage on a single 12-hour shift with family overnight.
Equipment on a monthly rental works out lower per day than a weekly one. Setups measured in months are priced differently from a two-week bridge after a discharge.
Equipment rental, nursing and consumables quoted together after the assessment, so there is no second conversation about money once the bed is in the room.
Getting an ICU set up at home takes a few hours to install. What takes the time is the assessment and preparing the room, so start it two or three days before a planned discharge.
We review the discharge summary and speak to the treating doctor to fix the level and the equipment list.
Someone visits to check power, space and access, and tells you what has to be moved or changed.
Equipment delivered, assembled and tested, alarm limits set to the patient, before the patient arrives home.
The first nurse takes handover from the hospital team, and shift-to-shift handover runs from there.
Open your city for local coverage, hospital discharge support and how installation works there.
Send the discharge summary and what the treating doctor has advised. We will tell you which level applies, what the room needs, and honestly whether the patient should stay in hospital.
