We just made an offer on a new, larger house that will accomodate my family
as well as my parents. I found a short-term sub-acute rehab facitlity in
West Palm Beach, 75 miles away, and am waiting to hear if they will accept my
mother for a final attempt at weaning.
I expect, however, that she will not be able to be weaned and am expecting
that when she comes to my home she will still be on a vent.
These are my new questions:
1.) Can anyone recommend a text that would teach me about respiration on a
vent, about operating and maintaining the vent, the meaning of the different
settings and information that the vent displays, etc.?
2.) I assume that if my mother can not be weaned in the rehab facility, that
she would then not ever be able to be weaned at home, even if her fragile
medical condition would improve considerably. I can not envision that the
constant monitoring needed when the weaning is done could ever happen at
home. Am I correct?
Chris Gawlak