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What Can I Do So That My Mom Can Get Off The Ventilator?
Hi! I m looking for a Facility for my Mother that needs to have Therapy. She s on a Ventilator and we would like some kind of Therapy for her to get her off that machine. Shes currently at a Sub Cute of a Hospital with they do No therapy put turn her side to side and take her to a Room to watch TV with she just looks up...
Mon, 23 Jun 2014
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Putting on a ventilator is one amongst the last resorts of survival. Now what therapy it is and what is it that ventilator was needed for are some questions which need a thorough history and complete clinical correlation which this question does not have. i suggest discuss the options with her pulmonologist and do as directed and trust her doctors. they are doing their best.
take care
Putting on a ventilator is one amongst the last resorts of survival. Now what therapy it is and what is it that ventilator was needed for are some questions which need a thorough history and complete clinical correlation which this question does not have. i suggest discuss the options with her pulmonologist and do as directed and trust her doctors. they are doing their best.
take care
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