A program for nonhospital management of ventilator-dependent patients.
The growing number of patients with pulmonary disease who cannot be weaned from mechanical ventilation makes necessary the development of programs enabling their transfer to an extended-care facility or to the home. A program developed at a midwestern hospital is bed here.
D006701:Home Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D008824:Michigan; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010351:Patient Discharge; D012121:Respiration, Artificial