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Management of Patients with Neuromuscular Disease by John R. Bach, MD (Auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Management of Patients with Neuromuscular Disease about?

A great majority of people with neuromuscular diseases like muscular dystrophy, ALS, spinal muscular atrophy, myasthenia gravis and post-poliomyelitis continue to be told that they have ''terminal illnesses'' and are not offered management options that can spare them of cardiopulmonary morbidity and mortality. This book is unique in offering viable management alternatives that result in a patients prolonged survival and enhanced quality of life.* Unique because it offers descriptions of how to eliminate the respiratory or cardiac causes of complications and death for neuromuscular diseases. * Emphasizes the home care/management of severe disabled individuals with neuromuscular disorders and those who require ventilator use. * Describes inexpensive methods of clearing airway secretions and preventing episodes of respiratory failure that would otherwise necessitate hospitalizations and expensive, invasive interventions like tracheotomy or result in the patient's death. Important in the third world where this could prevent many deaths.

Who reads Management of Patients with Neuromuscular Disease?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
John R. Bach, MD (Auth.)
Publisher
Hanley & Belfus, Incorporated
Published
2004
Language
EN
ISBN
9781560536048
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Medical, Medicine
Updated
2026-03-24

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