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German Interdisciplinary Society for Extraclinical Ventilation / deutsche interdisziplinäre gesellschaft für außerklinische beatmung (DIGAB)

German Interdisciplinary Society for Extraclinical Ventilation / deutsche interdisziplinäre gesellschaft für außerklinische beatmung (DIGAB)

Freiburg Im Breisgau, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Since the poliomyelitis epidemic in the 1950s, patients have been ventilated with extraclinical treatment, but initially technically complicated with large respirators such as, Eg the iron lung. With the development of face masks, long-term breathing has been simplified so that since the end of the 80s of the last century, the non-invasive masks have entered the clinical routine.

This was the reason for the development of the " Arbeitskreises Heim- und Langzeitbeatmung " in 1994, and in 1997 the founding of the " Arbeitsgemeinschaft Respiratorentköhnung und Heimbeatmung""(AGH) eV Since then, the number of patients with extraclinical ventilation has increased rapidly, on the one hand due to the ever-improving ventilation technology, and on the other hand, medical progress leads to patients surviving complex intensive care treatments stay required mechanical ventilation.