[Optimising speech during artificial ventilation].
Speech is an essential component of quality of life for patients treated with long term mechanical ventilation. Therefore trying to improve phonation should always sought by physicians treating these patients. We review the different tools and techniques available in order to restore speech for patients with home mechanical ventilation whether ventilation is done continuously or not.
Gonzalez-Bermejo
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Service de pneumologie et de réanimation, Groupe Hospitalier PitiéSalpêtrière, Assistance Publique, Hôpitaux de Paris, France. jesus.gonzalez@psl.ap-hop-paris.fr
Prigent
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H
D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D013060:Speech; D014139:Tracheostomy / Q000379:methods