It ensures that these patients often remain dependent on ventilation. Radboud university medical center is the only clinic in the Netherlands that has a special weaning unit and takes patients from hospitals where collection from the ventilator is unsuccessful.
Head of IC, Hans van der Hoeven of Radboud: “We have a patient who was on IC for about 90 days with the most affected lungs I have ever seen. But we still managed to get him off the ventilator. ”
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