The case of severe botulism: artificial ventilation of lungs for 127 days

Abstract

Botulism is a rare but extremely severe disease being difficult to treat and often leading to the death. In this context, undoubted interest is the detailed analysis of the course of disease in a patient with severe botulism, who in the course of therapy in total (from first admission to hospital discharge) spent totally on hospital beds (considering staying in various hospital) 152 days, including in intensive care units - 145 days, out of which 127 days - on a ventilator (the first 93 days of treatment there was carried out in the mode of mechanical ventilation IPPV, the next 34 days there was carried out intermittent mechanical ventilation in mode of BiPaP).