PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - W. Terry Gipson
TI  - Mechanical ventilation in the home
DP  - 1985 Sep 21
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 313--315
VI  - 52
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/52/3/313.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/52/3/313.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1985 Sep 21; 52
AB  - Mechanical ventilation in the home is preferable to hospitalization for economic and psychosocial reasons. The psychiatrist can aid in the assessment of home care candidates in three specific areas: (a) organic impairment of brain function by the primary disease or its treatment, (b) the patient’s reaction to the illness, including premorbid adaptive and maladaptive coping behavior, and (c) mood disturbances. Rehabilitative care is directed toward patient participation and partial weaning from the ventilator. Custodial care is intended for those patients who cannot be weaned and whose condition does not allow them to help care for themselves.