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The general director of Health Care Murciano Health Service stresses the importance for the patient meet the respiratory therapy as prescribed by the physician
The Rafael Méndez Health Area III-Lorca Hospital has improved the services offered by the Respiratory Therapy Unit, managed by Vital Air.
This has increased the hours of patient care, has enabled a specific query and provides a comprehensive service to those patients with respiratory diseases character.
Unit of Respiratory Therapy today was opened by the Director General of Health Care Murciano Health Service (SMS), Magina Blázquez, as well as the managing director of the Health Area III-Lorca, Catalina Lorenzo, and the CEOs of Vital Air, Philippe Lecerf, and Gasmedi, Jesus Escudero.
This unit, located in front of the entrance door of the Rafael Mendez Outpatient Hospital, has an area of ​​20 square meters on a hall, a room suitable for Air Vital activity room and another room adapted to query for Pneumology sleep studies and sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (SAHS).
Blázquez said that "although the Respiratory Therapy Unit is operational since 2010, there have been some initiatives that provide better care and patient monitoring."
Thus, for example, said "office hours, which was 10 hours a week before, has been extended to 24 hours a week."
The staff of the Unit of Respiratory Therapy, which works closely with professionals Pneumology Hospital Rafael Méndez, from now on will be open Monday to Friday from 11:00 hours to 14:00 hours Monday and Wednesday from 14:30 hours to 17:30 hours.
In any case, stated the general director, the extended hours "does not imply a cessation of visits and home care as they continue to be made as normal to monitor and solve potential problems with patients who must stay at home."
The principal activities of the Unit of Respiratory Therapy consists Blázquez said, to expedite the process of sleep study, home respiratory therapy and adapting as CPAP, BiPAP and ventilation.
In addition, group sessions conducted diagnostic tests such as polygraphs, oximetry and qualifications are being monitored and the patient is made.
The director general said that "one of the main functions of this unit is to ensure adherence of patients with respiratory diseases as it is very important to follow the directions and prescription of the physician."
Respiratory diseases
The Health Area III-Lorca, whose reference health center is the Rafael Mendez Hospital, has a population of 172,630 inhabitants of which 3,075 were seen throughout the last year in the Unit of Respiratory Therapy.
Of all patients, the majority, 2,044, are being treated with CPAP, oxygen concentrator 627, 140 and 102 with aerosol BIPAP.
The remainder required therapies as bottled oxygen, liquid oxygen or secretion aspirator, among others.
During 2013, said the general director of Health Care SMS, constant attention to these patients who are visited regularly maintained, they reviewed the equipment or change in those cases where it was necessary, among other actions .
Thus concluded Blázquez, "we want to ensure the quality and sustainability of respiratory therapies in the patient's home and provide comprehensive monitoring of your therapy to help improve their quality of life."
Source: CARM
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