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Article: Discharge planning for the NPPV patient.(noninvasive positive pressure ventilation )
- Article from:
- FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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With decreasing length of patient stays in health care facilities, patient discharges involving noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV), including respiratory assist devices, are generally a frustrating experience for the referral source, the patient and home care respiratory care professional. The reason for the frustration on everyone's part is due to a lack of understanding of the qualification guidelines for NPPV and the amount of time it takes to work through these guidelines. Home oxygen therapy rules are very straight forward and health care professionals involved in discharge planning have a good understanding of these guidelines because of their ...