Many patients who end up needing Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) often present to community clinicians or specialists with common risk factors and disease processes.
Once a patient is identified as “at risk” for LTV, the patient care be referred as an outpatient to the Chronic Ventilation Clinic.
Several tools have been developed to standardize the identification and management of both patients who are “at risk” for NIV, and those patients who will require NIV permanently. Some of the more frequently used forms include:
1. NIV Screening Checklist – identify patients at risk or in need for NIV
2. NIV Master Checklist – organizing checklist to ensure best practice in developing treatment plan
3. NIV Prescription form – to prescribe or revise NIV settings
4. Secretion clearance prescription form – to ensure secretion clearnance treatments are maximized in the community setting
Further documentation available here supports patient access to assistive devices and funding, secretion clearance equipment prescription form, and a lifestyle and functional assessment that may help set realistic goals for the plan of care.
