[Hospital admissions in patients with chronic home ventilation]

Home mechanical ventilation represents a standard of care in the insufficiency of the ventilatory pump. The follow-up model could change the hospitalization rate. In order to study hospitalizations in patients with home mechanical ventilation, a descriptive study was designed on a systematic collection database. Participants were patients with non-invasive ventilation or invasive mechanical ventilation consecutively included in a day hospital program between July 2014 and December 2016. Hospitalizations and their modality one year before and after the program were analyzed. Ninety four patients participated; 52 men (55%), age 64.4 ± 15.9 years; mean body mass index; 28.60 ± 8.46 kg/m2; 50% had obesity. Eighty patients (85%) received home mechanical ventilation; non-invasive in 77 cases and invasive in three (4%). Thirty two patients were re-admitted to the hospital in one year of follow-up. There were significant differences between the global admission rate before and after the program (0.68 ± 0.47 vs. 0.42 ± 0.50 hospitalizations per patient) p 0.044, intensive care unit hospitalizations; 32 vs. 14, p 0.005 and days in ICU (12.9 ± 7.75 vs. 10.57 ± 7.5) p 0.048. The population to whom home mechanical ventilation was offered had a high hospitalization rate that was reduced by this follow-up model.