Mechanical Ventilation
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Mechanical Ventilation


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What Your Child May Experience

Breathing can be supported with a machine to treat an acute respiratory illness or for ongoing, or chronic, breathing support. A complex care clinician, pulmonary specialist, or palliative care team can help you sort through the use of these interventions. They will consider the details that are specific to your child. The use of acute ventilation and chronic ventilation often involve the same consideration: what is most important at this point in your child’s life, as it is often difficult to predict to what degree a child with SNI will recover from an illness. Machines that assist with breathing include:

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CPAP or BiPAP

Tracheostomy

Ventilator

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