RE: Excessive secretions Percussion
Jeff Gray (nirusers(AT)ptdprolog.net)
Tue, 21 Oct 1997 19:54:54 -0400
>Hello, Jeff:
>
> Do you use your Inexsufflator with a trach or are you ventilated
>noninvasively. I see you live in N.J. (I suppose that means New Jersey) so
>youīll have Dr. Bach near home. He is an enthusiastic defender of the
>Inexsufflator and he sustains that by means of that device and other
>methods like manual assisted cough, glossopharingeal breathing and more
>itīs possible to mantein full ventilatory support in a 24 hours basis
>noninvasively. Another thing he recommends is to provide patients an
>oximeter for home use because itīs very useful to detect decreases in the
>SaO2 value in case of respiratory infection and guide home therapy. Then my
>question not only for you but for other people in the list is: Who has an
>oximeter at home?
>
>Dr. J.M. Quiroga
>Intensive Care Unit
>Home Mechanical Ventilation Unit
>Hospital Central de Asturias
>Oviedo. SPAIN
I'm using non-invasive ventilation. I know Dr.Bach well. He lives about 15
minutes away. Actually, he has brought several overseas doctors to my house
to show them my equipment set-up and explain how I use it. Maybe you were
one of them?I do have an oximeter at home.
Jeff Gray in New Jersey