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  • Title: [Home respiratory therapy becomes more and more frequent. Increased quality of life via a simplified technique].
    Author: Olofson J, Harlid R, Midgren B.
    Journal: Lakartidningen; 1995 Mar 15; 92(11):1105-9. PubMed ID: 7700113.
    Abstract:
    Long-term domiciliary ventilation is an effective treatment for chronic hypoventilation due to neuromuscular disease or thoracic deformity. As the majority of patients require assisted ventilation only at night, it is a simple means of improving quality of life, and even sometimes of prolonging life. According to a nationwide enquiry organised by the Swedish Thoracic Society in 1993, 460 patients (5.5 per 100,000 of the population) were using domiciliary ventilation (almost a doubling of the figure of 250 patients reported from a similar survey in 1990). The most prevalent indications were poliomyelitis sequelae (30%), followed by myopathy (21%), idiopathic scoliosis (13%) and tuberculosis sequelae (13%). Eighty per cent of the patients used assisted ventilation only at night, and 60 per cent used non-invasive devices such as a nasal mask.
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