Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation

Caregiving and long-term mechanical ventilation.

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Long-term mechanical ventilation: management strategies.

This paper reviews management strategies for patients undergoing prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV). Topics covered include how to identify and correct barriers to weaning, the systematic approach to weaning trials, when to cease weaning trials and proceed with life-long support, managing the tracheostomy tube during PMV, and, finally, how to select a suitable mechanical ventilator for PMV.

Long-term home mechanical ventilation in the United States.

Patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation are rapidly increasing in number. Improved ICU care has resulted in many patients surviving acute respiratory failure to require prolonged mechanical ventilation during convalescence. Also, mechanical ventilation is increasingly used as a therapeutic option for patients with symptomatic chronic hypoventilation, with an increased effort to pre...

Long-term nasal ventilation.

Weaning from short-term mechanical ventilation.

sor, associate dean for research, and director, Center for Nursing Research, University of Texas, School of Nursing, at Houston. Hemodynamic Stability Patients’ responses to both mechanical and spontaneous ventilation vary according to myocardial function and reserve capacity. Cardiac failure, which may not be apparent when a patient is receiving mechanical ventilation, can be exacerbated with ...