Neurological Therapeutics
Online ISSN : 2189-7824
Print ISSN : 0916-8443
ISSN-L : 2189-7824
 
COVID–19 and necessary respiratory care in neuromuscular disease
Tetsuo Komori
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2021 Volume 38 Issue 1 Pages 33-38

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Many patients with neuromuscular disease are involved in respiratory insufficiency. It becomes difficult problem especially in those patient with COVID–19. There are 7 important factors for the respiratory care in this condition. Those are risk of aerosol, care plan for non–invasive positive pressure ventilation and tracheostomy invasive positive pressure ventilation, tips of suction, oxygen therapy, mechanical clearance of tracheal air way and rehabilitation technique of respiratory care.

The risk of aerosol might be the most important for every other 6 factors. I informed each factor precisely. It should be useful for daily clinical setting.

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