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In this paper there is an outline of the organisation and the results of domiciliary ventilation for patients with neuromuscular diseases where there are serious respiratory problems, in relation to special facilities that have been made available in France. The clinical and economic benefits are stated, in particular concerning the situation in the greater Paris area.
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Paper read at the First European Conference on Domiciliary Ventilation and High Spinal Cord Lesion, in Southport, England, in October 1991.
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Gajdos, P. The French organisation of mechanical ventilation at home for neuromuscular diseases. Spinal Cord 31, 147–149 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1993.27
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1993.27