Penelope
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No, I have no idea.
I do remember my mom coming back from open heart surgery to ICU, and she was not awake...had a million tubes in. We were allowed in once they got her "situated". Also last year, she was admitted to ICU for a blood infection (sepsis).The nurses let us stay in the room for hours. So, it's not unheard of for family members to be in ICU outside of normal visiting hours.
My husband spent a total of almost a month in an ICU in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The first time was for almost 2 weeks; the second time (about 6 months later) was a little over 2 weeks -- he went on to pass away while still there.
During both times he was in the ICU, the staff let family members be there with him -- usually no more than 2 or 3 at a time. However, we had over 20 people at his bed twice during his final stay-- first, when they took him off the respirator so he could talk to us briefly before they sedated him; and second, in the minutes before he died.
At all times when we were there, a staff member was only steps away. I felt as though I did not have to worry about my husband as much as if he had been on a regular ward in the hospital because in the ICU he had a nurse assigned to him 24/7.
I cannot imagine how the nurses/medical staff were not at Jahi's bedside within seconds of when she started bleeding. Also, there was no way that the staff of the ICU where my husband stayed would have allowed us to do anything regarding his care-- suctioning, etc. If anything medically serious was going on with him, they made us leave very quickly.
The family's story about what happened raises red flags. Although, I do remember a bed at one end of the ICU in Winnipeg that was used for patients who just had surgery. Maybe Jahi was in a recovery room/ICU where staff did not pay as much attention to patients as is done in a regular ICU.