Beschreibung
The burden of acute respiratory failure (ARF) has become one the greatest epidemiological challenges for the modern health systems. Consistently, the imbalance between the increasing prevalence of acutely de-compensated respiratory diseases and the shortage of high-daily cost ICU beds has stimulated new health cost-effective solutions. Respiratory High-Dependency Care Units (RHDCU) provide a specialized environment for patients who require an intermediate level of care between the ICU and the ward, where non-invasive monitoring and assisted ventilation techniques are preferentially applied. RHDCUs provide a specialised quality of care for ARF with health resources optimisation and their spread throughout health systems has been driven by their high-level of expertise in non-invasive ventilation (NIV), weaning from invasive ventilation, tracheostomy care, and discharging planning for ventilator-dependent patients.
Autorenporträt
Specialist in Respiratory Diseases and Intensive Care Medicine. Head of Pulmonology Ward and Respiratory Intensive Care Unit in Arezzo, Italy. Author or co-author of almost 100 peer-review papers. Chair of Noninvasive ventilatory Group of European Respiratory Society. Research interests in NIV, RICU, bronchoscopy, diffuse lung diseases.
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OmniScriptum SRL
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