Home Noninvasive Ventilation in Pediatric Subjects With Neuromuscular Diseases: One Size Fits All

• Published in: Respiratory care Vol. 66; no. 3; p. 410
• Main Authors: Steindor, Mathis, Wagner, Carolin E, Bock, Claudia, Eckerland, Maximilian, Heitschmidt, Laura, Pichlmaier, Leopold, Olivier, Margerete, Bouikidis, Anastasios, Grosse-Onnebrink, Joerg, Mellies, Uwe, Stehling, Florian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.03.2021
• Subjects: Adolescent; Child; Child, Preschool; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Neuromuscular Diseases - complications; Noninvasive Ventilation; Respiratory Insufficiency - etiology; Respiratory Insufficiency - therapy; Retrospective Studies; Vital Capacity; chronic respiratory insufficiency; home ventilation; neuromuscular disease; spinal muscular atrophy; Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Home noninvasive ventilation (NIV) improves disease courses of patients with respiratory insufficiency due to neuromuscular diseases. Data about appropriate ventilator settings for pediatric patients are missing. In this retrospective study, ventilator settings of 128 subjects with neuromuscular dis...