When was the first person on a ventilator at home?
This is the ventilator Alex currently uses. There are a few types of ventilators. Alex has used this brand since he was injured. His ventilator used to be the only support he had for breathing, but since he started using the diaphragm pacer, the vent actually does very little support. The diaphragm pacer(another technology that most hospitals have either never heard of or never worked with), is the main breathing support for Alex and the vent just assists a bit. When was the first person on a ventilator at home? That question popped in my head the other morning. I have been working for at least a year, probably more, to communicate with individuals who are in positions in the systems that can legitimately work to change policies. What I’m trying to address is not just the provider crisis (which has existed for decades and continued to worsen) but also the growing population of individuals with medically complex situations that the systems to not seem to have the struct...
