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Care pathways for home-ventilated patients
Care pathways for home-ventilated patients
The Pathways provide clinicians with a guide across the continuum of care and progression of disease. They focus on patient-centred care and quality and safety improvements. View the resources:
Home ventilation service
Home ventilation can assist patients whose breathing is inadequate to maintain life during wakefulness and/or sleep. It can be provided in the patient’s home and or/on their wheelchair and allows the patients to live at home rather than being cared for fulltime in a hospital setting
The intent of a home-ventilation service is to:
- deliver care in the community and not in a hospital setting with the least burden of care on primary carers
- promote the patient’s independence and freedom of movement (e.g. wheel chair-mounted ventilator)
- improve access to services in the community from the time of respiratory failure diagnosis, resulting in reduced hospitalisation
- manage disease progression in the community with the right team
- prolong life expectancy
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Office of the Chief Medical Officer
Last reviewed: 11-03-2021