The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on home mechanical ventilation services: A national survey

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruption to healthcare services globally. We present the findings of a national survey of home mechanical ventilation (HMV) services in England and Wales. 30 HMV services (60%) responded. There was a significant reduction in outpatient services with 93% of se...

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Autores principales: Shah, Amar J., Suh, Eui-Sik, Kaltsakas, George, Ramsay, Michelle, Saigal, Anita, Murphy, Patrick B., Armstorng, Alison, Mandal, Swapna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8958773/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35366623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2022.106831
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Sumario:The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruption to healthcare services globally. We present the findings of a national survey of home mechanical ventilation (HMV) services in England and Wales. 30 HMV services (60%) responded. There was a significant reduction in outpatient services with 93% of services not offering routine face-to-face appointments, although most centres were able to offer emergency appointments for ventilation review and set-up. HMV inpatient capacity was reassigned, and HMV service staff re-deployed in the majority of centres (97%). The initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic left a service backlog of a median of 87 outpatient appointments [range 0–1500] and a median of 4 patients (range 0–100) awaiting NIV set-up.

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