title: [Bright prospects and deplorable state of prolonged home mechanical ventilation in Russia: two cases' description].
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Tsarenko
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Filimonova
authors.forename: O R
authors.initials: OR
authors.lastname: Dobrushina
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000690:Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / Q000628:therapy*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012426:Russia