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This is a study of two children, aged respectively 10 and 6 years, who sustained a spinal cord injury at the Cl C2, causing apnoea. After the bilateral implantation of diaphragm pacemakers and periods of conditioning, they were able to adapt to continuous and simultaneous full-time ventilatory support of both diaphragms without any sign of fatigue, for more than 24 and 11 months, respectively.
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Read at the Scientific Meeting of the II Euro-Mediterranean and Ibero-American Congress of Paraplegia, Toledo, April, 1985.
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Garrido, H., Mazaira, J., Gutierrez, P. et al. Permanent artificial respiration by diaphragm pacemaker in tetraplegic children. Spinal Cord 24, 276–281 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1986.38
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1986.38