Weaning category 3 (prolonged weaning) c (unsuccessfull weaning with the need of invasive home mechanical ventilation)
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Patients who are invasively ventilated in an outpatient setting, but have not been transferred to invasive home mechanical ventilation by a specialized and certified weaning unit. Only those
Sponsors
Lungenklinik Köln-MerheimKliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1.1. Patients invasively ventilated in an outpatient setting, but have not been transferred to invasive home mechanical ventilation by a specialized and certified weaning unit 1.2. Patients who are transferred to a specialized weaning unit to especially check for weaning potential 1.3. on home mechanical ventilation for not more than 90 days 2.1. Patients who are planned to be dischared by an inpatient ventilatory unit (which is not associated to a specialized weaning unit) in which the process of discharge to a home mechanical ventilation setting has been started. Weaning has to be terminated and has to be classified as “not successful”. The transferring clinic has to confirm in written form that weaning is terminated in their clinic and that is has been unsuccessful.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients who are reffered to the weaning unit to reevaluate invasive ventilation 2. Patients who were treated in a speciallized weaning unit before 3. Patients in a running weaning process
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| weaning rate (dichotomous) at discharge from weaning unit | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| - projected cost savings regarding inasive home mechanical ventilation for a period of 6 to 12 months - rate of complications and death rate during the stay in the weaning unit - health related quality of life | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactWolfram Windisch
Lungenklinik Köln-MerheimKliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH
Outcome results
None listed