Bangalore · 24-hour critical-care cover
ICU nurse at home in Bangalore.
Critical care, counted in days.
ICU-trained nurses on 24-hour cover for a ventilated, tracheostomised or otherwise critically dependent patient at home, for a defined stretch from three days. Booked on the treating doctor’s plan, with the equipment arranged on rental and a clear step-down point.
72-hour lead time. Minimum three days of 24-hour cover.
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How this service is delivered
In one paragraph
Short-term ICU nursing at home means two ICU-trained nurses alternating 12-hour shifts so a critically dependent patient is watched around the clock at home for a defined period, usually one to four weeks, on a plan written by the treating doctor. It covers ventilator and tracheostomy care, suction, infusions, monitoring and the escalation call. It needs 72 hours to set up, a minimum three-day booking, and the equipment arranged before the patient arrives.
Why short-term ICU at home
Some patients are stable enough to leave the ICU
and still too dependent for an ordinary home nurse.
A patient on a home ventilator, a fresh tracheostomy that needs suction every hour, a cardiac patient in the first week after a major event. Hospitals will keep them in a step-down unit at ICU-level cost, or discharge them to a family who cannot manage the equipment. ICU nursing at home for a defined stretch is the third option: the same nurse-to-patient ratio as a hospital ICU, in the patient’s own room, until the doctor agrees the patient can step down to ordinary nursing. Every booking has a step-down point written into it from the start.
What the ICU nurse manages
Five kinds of critical care at home.
Each links to a detailed page. All of them are booked the same way: 24-hour cover, two nurses, on the treating doctor’s written plan, for a defined number of days.
Ventilator care at home
Circuit checks, settings as prescribed, humidification, alarms, suction and the backup plan for a power cut.
- Booked as
- 24-hour cover
- Typically
- From 3 days; typically 1 to 4 weeks
Tracheostomy critical care
Hourly suction in the early days, cuff and tie care, stoma dressing, emergency tube change kit at the bedside.
- Booked as
- 24-hour cover
- Typically
- From 3 days; steps down as secretions settle
Cardiac critical care
Continuous monitoring after a heart attack, heart failure admission or cardiac surgery, with infusion and anticoagulant management.
- Booked as
- 24-hour cover
- Typically
- From 3 days; typically the first 1 to 2 weeks
ICU setup at home
What equipment a home ICU needs, how it is arranged on rental, and how the room is prepared before the patient arrives.
- Booked as
- Setup before day one
- Typically
- Arranged within the 72-hour lead time
Critical care at home, overview
The longer-term critical-care service for patients who will stay dependent for months.
- Booked as
- 24-hour cover
- Typically
- Monthly placements
How booking works
Three days to set up, then 24-hour cover.
ICU nursing at home starts with a plan from the treating doctor or intensivist: ventilator settings, infusion orders, monitoring targets and the conditions for calling an ambulance. We do not start ICU-level care without that plan. The 72-hour lead time is spent getting it, rostering two ICU nurses and installing the equipment.
- Lead time
- 72 hours
- Enquire the day the ICU team first mentions discharge. Settings and equipment take time to confirm.
- Minimum booking
- Three days of 24-hour cover
- Extend day by day after that. Most bookings run one to four weeks and step down to ordinary nursing.
- Staffing
- Two ICU nurses in 12-hour shifts
- One nurse to one patient, around the clock. We never roster a single nurse for 24 hours.
- Doctor’s plan
- Required before day one
- Ventilator settings, infusion orders, monitoring targets, escalation criteria, and who the nurse calls at 3am.
- Equipment
- Arranged on rental
- Ventilator, multipara monitor, suction, oxygen concentrator with backup cylinder, hospital bed, and a UPS for the ventilator.
- Pricing
- Quoted on enquiry
- Per day of 24-hour cover, with equipment rental and consumables itemised separately. No fixed rate is published.
Who works the shift
Nurses who have run a ventilator on a ward,
and can run one in a bedroom.
ICU nursing at home has no crash team down the corridor. We roster only nurses with ICU or critical-care unit experience for these bookings, each with a current BLS certificate and ACLS where the case needs it. A senior nurse visits within the first 48 hours to check the setup, and the coordinator is reachable throughout the booking.
+91-7619629005- GNM or B.Sc Nursing with ICU or critical-care unit experience
- Current Basic Life Support certificate; ACLS where the case requires it
- Ventilator, suction and infusion-pump competence confirmed on the specific devices installed
- State nursing council registration, Aadhaar and police verification on file
- Hourly observation chart and a written handover at every shift change
- Senior nurse setup visit within 48 hours and a coordinator on call throughout
How it works
From enquiry to the first shift. Four steps.
- 01
Share the ICU discharge plan
Diagnosis, ventilator or oxygen settings, infusions, and the date the team expects to discharge.
- 02
We confirm the doctor’s orders and the equipment
The coordinator speaks with the treating team, lists the equipment and arranges rental and installation.
- 03
Room ready, nurses rostered
Two ICU nurses are assigned and briefed on the case. The equipment is installed and tested before the ambulance arrives.
- 04
24-hour cover, then step-down
Hourly observations, written handovers, daily coordinator check-in. When the doctor agrees, care steps down to a regular nurse.
Is home ICU right for this patient
Who this is for, and who should stay in hospital.
Home ICU nursing suits
- A patient on a home ventilator whose settings have been stable for days
- A tracheostomy that needs frequent suction but no other organ support
- Cardiac or neuro patients the ICU team is willing to discharge with monitoring
- Long ICU stays where the family and the doctor agree home is safer for recovery or comfort
- End-of-life patients whose family wants ICU-level comfort care at home
Stay in hospital when
- Settings are still being changed daily or the patient needs dialysis or vasopressors
- The treating doctor will not write a home plan or will not be reachable
- The home cannot take the equipment, or has no reliable power backup
- The nearest hospital with an ICU is more than about 30 minutes away in Bangalore traffic
Frequently asked
ICU nursing at home, answered.
Critical care at home.
For as long as it is needed, and no longer.
Tell us what the ICU team is planning. We come back with the plan we need from the doctor, the equipment list and a start date within 72 hours.