An experience of intravenous antibacterial therapy at home in cystic fibrosis children

Abstract

Health care generally changes its tendency from expensive hospitals to cheaper outpatient conditions.
Advantages of a home treatment are an absence of cross- and super-infection risks and of phycologic problems linked to a hospitalization, an economic reasonability. Since February, 1996 the Russian Cystic Fibrosis Center has been practising an antibacterial therapy at home. We performed 189 courses of such the treatment in 44 cystic fibrosis Children during this period. The presence of an intravenous catheter did not disturb a normal life activity of a child and his family, including attendance a school. In 2000 the Moscow Public Health Department and the Russian Cystic Fibrosis Center performed the nurse training in 163 paediatric outpatient departments regarding a care for a peripheral intravenous catheter and infusing through it.