Home Infusion Therapy
There are many instances where Home Infusion therapy is preferable to hospitalistation. During the past decade, home IV therapy and other types of professionally guided home medical treatment have proven to be safe and effective. When you receive home therapy, you join the many people who have regained a sense of freedom and comfort through home medical treatment.
Home Infusion allows the patient the comfort and convenience of staying at home whilst still enjoying the most up to date and specialised treatment regime administered by a specialist Nurse who is trained in the most up to date infusion techniques.
In the past, if you needed intravenous medication, it meant a trip to the hospital. Now, because of the support of Lauderdale's specially trained nurses, intravenous medication can be given at home. With the help of Lauderdale's care and systems, many patients or their families, can learn how to assist with their own treatment. With the help of the latest small portable equipment, some patients can even return to work or resume their favourite activities.
Lauderdale provides home infusion from our Claremont, Cape Town office throughout the greater Peninsula area. Our staff provides, amongst others, the following services to patients in their homes :
- IV Antibiotic, Antiviral and Antifungal Therapies
- Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
- Chronic and acute Pain Management
- Chemotherapy
- Central Line care
- Hydration Therapy
- AIDS related Therapies
- Long term Care Specialist
Advantages
Treatment at home has been shown in many cases to have the following advantages :
- Improved quality of life
- Significant cost reduction
- Reduced risk of infection
- Privacy and company of family or caregiver
- Greater self-participation in treatment program
- Comfort of own home/food/clothes and general routine
- Decreased stress on patient and family
- Earlier return to work/school/active lifestyle