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Pneumobelt for sleep in the ventilator user: clinical experience
1Howard A. Rusk Respiratory Rehabilitation Center, Goldwater Memorial Hospital, Roosevelt Island, NY 10044.
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
|September 1, 1989
Abstract:
A pneumobelt with a positive pressure respirator was used for sleep for three patients with chronic respiratory insufficiency secondary to syringomyelia, poliomyelitis, and Friedreich's ataxia respectively. This device was found to be effective in improving and maintaining their daily functioning in the community or institute.