Users' Experiences With Home Mechanical Ventilation: A Review of Qualitative Studies.

CONCLUSIONS: According to the users, treatment by home mechanical ventilation resulted in increased well-being and facilitated a community- and home-based lifestyle compared with institutional-based treatment. However, the users also expressed difficulties in coming to terms with the necessary extensive surveillance, which gave rise to a sense of undermined autonomy and self-determinism as well as continued worries and uncertainty. The users called this situation dependent independency. As a result of the review we call for an increased focus on a patient-centered treatment and care.
PMID: 31337740 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Respiratory Care - July 22, 2019 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Ørtenblad L, Carstensen K, Væggemose U, Løvschall C, Sprehn M, Küchen S, Nørregaard O, Jensen LG Tags: Respir Care Source Type: research