Bright prospects and deplorable state of prolonged home mechanical ventilation in Russia: two cases' description
Tsarenko, S.V.; Filimonova, E.V.; Dobrushina, O.R.
Anesteziologiia i Reanimatologiia 4: 78-79
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 0201-7563 PMID: 21957629 Document Number: 651284
The report describes two patients with lateral amyotrophic sclerosis complicated by respiratory insufficiency. Instead of long-term hospitalization to ICU the patients were kept at home, where prolonged mechanical ventilation was applied to them: in the first case - through tracheostomy tube, in the second - through mask. The use of prolonged home mechanical ventilation therapy instead of long-term hospitalization to ICU is discussed.