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How Can One Be Shifted Between The Hospitals With Ventilation Machine?

hi, please tell me is it good to travel a patient with ventilated machine? This patient now in attached to the ventilated machine and we want to take her to another hospital? how we can do this? how long we can keep her after remove the machine till go to next hospital? please let me know what to do?
Fri, 27 Feb 2015
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Hello dear, thanks for your question on HCM.
I can understand your situation and problem.
It is extremely risky to shift patient with ventilatory support.
So just make sure that patient is having genuine reason for transfer because during transfer patient can be critical and may expire.
Now a days, ventilators with battery back up are available. In these ventilators, we can continue machine for 1 hour during travel.
Another way is to start ambu bag ventilation in patient.
So discuss all these in detail with your doctor and then take decision about transfer.
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How Can One Be Shifted Between The Hospitals With Ventilation Machine?

Hello dear, thanks for your question on HCM. I can understand your situation and problem. It is extremely risky to shift patient with ventilatory support. So just make sure that patient is having genuine reason for transfer because during transfer patient can be critical and may expire. Now a days, ventilators with battery back up are available. In these ventilators, we can continue machine for 1 hour during travel. Another way is to start ambu bag ventilation in patient. So discuss all these in detail with your doctor and then take decision about transfer.