The "Lebensluft" ward enables critically ill patients to receive optimal therapeutic support, up to six months, after a phase of long-term ventilation to resume a life without a ventilator.
Difficult weaning
After a serious illness or an accident, it sometimes takes a long time, in individual cases up to several months, before the breathing work can be completely taken over again by the patient. There are many reasons for this: In most cases there is an unrecognised lung disease such as COPD, which is often only diagnosed during the hospital stay and makes weaning from the ventilator much more difficult.
New treatment concept "Lebensluft"
In these cases, the Lebensluft ward offers an advanced therapy option: the aim of the interdisciplinary cooperation between lung specialists, experienced nursing staff, respiratory, occupational and physiotherapists as well as speech therapists is to train your respiratory muscles in a targeted manner. "Lebensluft" enables those affected to "learn" to breathe for themselves again over a longer period of time and thus to lead a self-determined life in their own home environment. Outpatient care or accommodation in a respiratory care home, often for months, years or even a lifetime, can be avoided.