PneumologiePub Date : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2024-01-10DOI: 10.1055/a-2202-5558
Sarah Bettina Stanzel, Bernd Schönhofer
{"title":"[Home mechancial ventilation: quality of life and the final stage of life].","authors":"Sarah Bettina Stanzel, Bernd Schönhofer","doi":"10.1055/a-2202-5558","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2202-5558","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The evaluation of health-related quality of life (HRQL) has gained importance in recent years. Disease-specific questionnaires are available for respiratory insufficiency, which enable the assessment of HRQL. The Severe Respiratory Insufficiency (SRI) questionnaire, which was specially developed for patients with respiratory insufficiency, is ideal for quantifying the quality of life in patients receiving home mechanical ventilation (HMV). Studies using the SRI questionnaire demonstrated that the physical functioning of patients with chronic lung diseases of various etiologies is significantly impaired, but frequently without significant impairment of psychological well-being. Therefore, severity of the disease and HRQL do not necessarily correlate with each other.Both invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation can improve quality of life. Co-morbidity, and above all advanced age, have the highest negative predictive value with regard to in-hospital mortality and weaning failure. The number of patients older than 80 years who remain dependent on invasive HMV after prolonged weaning in Germany is increasing significantly. High dependence on invasive HMV is often associated with a loss of quality of life and autonomy. Thus, ethical issues of the continued treatment of ventilated patients at the end of life are discussed increasingly.After weaning failure, the indication for invasive HMV should be critically examined and should focus on potentially severely reduced quality of life and poor prognosis, as well as the patient's wishes. If previously agreed treatment goals can no longer be achieved during the course of invasive HMV, changing the therapy goals should be discussed within the clinical team, with the patient, their relatives and, if necessary, with legal representatives.In order to avoid overtreatment and unnecessary patient suffering during invasive HMV, advanced care planning should be started as early as possible and if necessary accompanied by palliative medical measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":20197,"journal":{"name":"Pneumologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139417874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PneumologiePub Date : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2024-02-29DOI: 10.1055/a-2278-6685
Carsten Schwarz, Jutta Bend, Helge Hebestreit, Michael Hogardt, Christian Hügel, Stephan Illing, Jochen G Mainz, Ernst Rietschel, Sebastian Schmidt, Bernhard Schulte-Hubbert, Helmut Sitter, Marc Oliver Wielpütz, Jutta Hammermann, Ingo Baumann, Frank Brunsmann, Doris Dieninghoff, Ernst Eber, Helmut Ellemunter, Patience Eschenhagen, Caroline Evers, Saskia Gruber, Assen Koitschev, Julia Ley-Zaporozhan, Uta Düesberg, Hans-Joachim Mentzel, Thomas Nüßlein, Felix C Ringshausen, Ludwig Sedlacek, Christina Smaczny, Olaf Sommerburg, Sivagurunathan Sutharsan, Ralf-Peter Vonberg, Ann-Katrin Weber, Jovita Zerlik
{"title":"[CF Lung Disease - a German S3 Guideline: Pseudomonas aeruginosa].","authors":"Carsten Schwarz, Jutta Bend, Helge Hebestreit, Michael Hogardt, Christian Hügel, Stephan Illing, Jochen G Mainz, Ernst Rietschel, Sebastian Schmidt, Bernhard Schulte-Hubbert, Helmut Sitter, Marc Oliver Wielpütz, Jutta Hammermann, Ingo Baumann, Frank Brunsmann, Doris Dieninghoff, Ernst Eber, Helmut Ellemunter, Patience Eschenhagen, Caroline Evers, Saskia Gruber, Assen Koitschev, Julia Ley-Zaporozhan, Uta Düesberg, Hans-Joachim Mentzel, Thomas Nüßlein, Felix C Ringshausen, Ludwig Sedlacek, Christina Smaczny, Olaf Sommerburg, Sivagurunathan Sutharsan, Ralf-Peter Vonberg, Ann-Katrin Weber, Jovita Zerlik","doi":"10.1055/a-2278-6685","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2278-6685","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20197,"journal":{"name":"Pneumologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139997229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PneumologiePub Date : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1055/a-2216-0404
Fabian Gleibs, Felix Döllinger, Martin Witzenrath, Ralf-Harto Huebner, Jacopo Saccomanno
{"title":"Reexpansion pulmonary edema after treatment of primary spontaneous pneumothorax.","authors":"Fabian Gleibs, Felix Döllinger, Martin Witzenrath, Ralf-Harto Huebner, Jacopo Saccomanno","doi":"10.1055/a-2216-0404","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2216-0404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 24-year-old male patient, without further symptoms or comorbidities presented to the emergency room with acute dyspnea after heavy lifting two days before. On auscultation an attenuated vesicular breath was noticed on the right lung. In the initial chest radiograph a right-sided primary spontaneous pneumothorax with minor mediastinal shift was diagnosed. After insertion of a 12-French chest tube the patient's clinical condition deteriorated. The following chest radiograph and computed tomography of the thorax showed a reexpansion pulmonary edema in the right lung. The patient was admitted to the ICU and supportive treatment was initiated. Pulmonary reexpansion edema after drainage of a pneumothorax is a very rare complication with mortality rates reaching up to 20%. The exact pathophysiology remains unknown. Typical Symptoms include dyspnea, hypotension, and tachycardia. To minimize the risk of a pulmonary reexpansion edema, not more than 1200-1800 ml of air should be drained at once and the drainage should be stopped when the patient starts coughing.</p>","PeriodicalId":20197,"journal":{"name":"Pneumologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138808873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}