TY - JOUR AU - Pavone, Martino AU - Verrillo, Elisabetta AU - Onofri, Alessandro AU - Caggiano, Serena AU - Chiarini Testa, Maria Beatrice AU - Cutrera, Renato PY - 2020 DA - 2020/01/31 TI - Characteristics and outcomes in children on long-term mechanical ventilation: the experience of a pediatric tertiary center in Rome JO - Italian Journal of Pediatrics SP - 12 VL - 46 IS - 1 AB - Children with chronic respiratory failure and/or sleep disordered breathing due to a broad range of diseases may require long-term ventilation to be managed at home. Advances in the use of long-term non-invasive ventilation has progressively leaded to a reduction of the need for invasive mechanical ventilation through tracheostomy. In this study, we sought to characterize a cohort of children using long-term NIV and IMV and to perform an analysis of those children who showed significant changes in ventilatory support management. SN - 1824-7288 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13052-020-0778-8 DO - 10.1186/s13052-020-0778-8 ID - Pavone2020 ER -