"Tricks and tips for home mechanical ventilation" Home mechanical ventilation: set-up and monitoring protocols

Abstract

In this part of the review series "Tricks and tips for home mechanical ventilation", we will discuss the evidence with regard to the place and manner of home mechanical ventilation initiation and follow-up. Outsourcing more and more of this chronic care to the home situation is a big challenge for the future: especially for the home situation, monitoring has to be non-invasive, reliable and easy to use, data security needs to be ensured, signals need to be integrated and preferably automatically processed and algorithms need to be developed based on clinically relevant outcomes.

Keywords: Home mechanical ventilation; Monitoring; Non-invasive ventilation; Set-up; Telemonitoring.