Abstract:Owing to improved technology and care for patients who need mechanical ventilation, the quality of life as well as the prognosis for long‐term ventilator‐assisted patients has improved significantly in recent years. However, the increased number of these patients has raised economic, ethical and medical problems. In order to assess the magnitude of these problems, we conducted the first nationwide survey on the status of long‐term ventilator‐assisted children in Japan.
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“…Authors from several countries have described their experience with home‐based ventilation programmes for children . In Australia and New Zealand, guidelines for home ventilation in children were recently published, adding to those published in the United Kingdom (1998) and in the USA (1990) .…”
Section: Do We Really Know the Size Of The Problem?mentioning
“…Authors from several countries have described their experience with home‐based ventilation programmes for children . In Australia and New Zealand, guidelines for home ventilation in children were recently published, adding to those published in the United Kingdom (1998) and in the USA (1990) .…”
Section: Do We Really Know the Size Of The Problem?mentioning
“…11 Despite this there is limited information specifically on children at home on ventilation via a tracheostomy and their long term outcomes. The largest prospective study from France reported on outcomes of a heterogeneous group of children, and only 16 of the 158 on mechanical ventilation were supported via tracheostomy.…”
“…A nationwide survey on the status of long‐term ventilator‐assisted patients in Japan has revealed that 55 patients with WHD received long‐term ventilator support in Japan. 5 This is quite contrary to the situation in some European countries, for example, in Italy where few patients with WHD are given mechanical ventilation. 6 …”
Strong familial endorsement for the prolongation of a patient's life, the secure national insurance and general pro-life beliefs could have affected physicians' decisions in favor of providing life-sustaining treatments for patients with WHD.
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