Abstract
Mechanically ventilated patients in internal medicine wards: Survival and outcome one-year post-discharge
Highlights
Mechanical ventilation (MV) in patients admitted to the internal wards poses a very complex professional, ethical and humanitarian challenge
A retrospective study was designed for patients who were mechanically ventilated from January 2016 to December 2017 and were hospitalized in the Internal Medicine B Department at Hasharon Hospital, Rabin Medical Center in Israel
Data were collected from 200 patients who were admitted to the Internal Medicine Department between the years 2016-2017 (Table 1)
Summary
Mechanical ventilation (MV) in patients admitted to the internal wards poses a very complex professional, ethical and humanitarian challenge. Advancements in medicine, technology and artificial respiration techniques, from the 1960's to the present has led to an increase in the number of ventilated patients in general hospitals. Many ventilated patients in internal medicine departments are there mainly due to lack of space in intensive care units. We see patients 100 years old and more in internal medicine wards with a plurality of chronic illnesses which requires advanced nursing care [2,3]. Due to the hospital's heterogeneous population with different ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds, different expectations of close family members, and the emotional difficulty of the nursing and medical staff who deal with older patients in difficult and complex conditions, makes the mater even more complex
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