Ventilator Weaning Program
The entire CareLink team works toward restoring our patients’ optimal well-being, while decreasing their dependence on medical interventions-such as ventilators.
We treat each patient according to his or her own pace and individual needs. While helping them to become independent of a ventilator, we test their physical strength and tolerance levels to avoid heart or breathing problems. We base our treatment plan on each patient’s physical assessment, symptoms, disease stage and lab test results.
Our goals are to help patients to:
• Breathe without use of a ventilator
• Become independent of artificial airways, such as tracheostomy or endotracheal tube
• Become medically stable
• Swallow without impairment
• Move, walk and care for themselves with minimal assistance
• Learn more about their medical condition and how to treat it
• Achieve an optimal level of health and well-being.
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