Permanent artificial respiration by diaphragm pacemaker in tetraplegic children.
This is a study of two children, aged respectively 10 and 6 years, who sustained a spinal cord injury at the C1 C2, causing apnoea. After the bilateral implantation of diaphragm pacemakers and periods of conditioning, they were able to adapt to continuous and simultaneous full-time ventilatory support of both diaphragms without any sign of fatigue, for more than 24 and 11 months, respectively.
D002648:Child; D003964:Diaphragm; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000150:complications; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012133:Respiratory Paralysis / Q000628:therapy*