Ventilation et posture chez le sujet polyhandicapé

The quality of a person's ventilation is dependent of many factors, including the positioning or the quality of his or her motor command. In the severely disabled, mobility reduction and excessive contractions are likely to disturb ventilation. Other disorder factors may combine and aggravate indirectly the situation of these persons, affecting the quality of their breathing. Proper positioning is a prerequisite of the therapeutic project, to reduce the pathological states of contraction and implement ventilation. This concerns both manual and mechanical ventilation techniques.