Past Issues of
Ventilator-Assisted Living©
Listed by Issue and Date (continued)
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1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990
NOTE: Prior to 1998, IVUN News was published biannually.
1997
Fall 1997, Vol. 11, No. 2
Computer Becomes Therapy, Link to World for Patient
Adapting to Masks and BiPAP® | Living with Arthrogryposis
CCHS Registry | CCHS Update: Matt Stone
Forum on Home Mechanical Ventilation: The Danish Experience;
The Japanese Experience; The American Experience
MDA Publishes ALS Guide | Monitoring Respiratory Function
Potpourri: Frog Breathing with Gary McPherson video; FES Information Center; Nellcor Puritan Bennett acquired; Phantom Nasal Mask; Alliance for Technology Access
Spring 1997, Vol. 11, No. 1
How Will They Know If I'm Dead? Transcending Disability and Terminal Illness
Living with Spinal Muscular Atrophy | Ventilator Sessions at GINI Conference
John H. Emerson and the Iron Lung | Websites of Interest
SSI Benefit Changes | Living with ALS Manual Revised
In Memoriam: D. Armin Fischer, MD | Home Mechanical Ventilation Conference
Canine Companions for Independence and Ventilator Users
1996
Fall 1996, Vol. 10, No. 2
IVUN News Celebrates 10th Anniversary | CCHS Data
Choosing Life, Even on a Ventilator | Living with Pompe's Disease
Living with Acid Maltase Deficiency | Schools and Programs for Pediatric Ventilator Users | New Equipment & Aids
Potpourri: Living SMArt; The Reeve-Irvine Research Center; High Quadriplegia; Exploring Breathing Support Options
A Reader Writes | Books | People in the News ... Grethe Nyholm, RNP; Richard Daggett
Spring 1996, Vol. 10, No. 1
Noninvasive Ventilation: A Successful Changeover | Passy-Muir Valve Helps Wean from Tracheostomy
New Danish Custom Nasal Mask | Tracheal Toilet and Speech | Frog Breathing: Still Useful, Still Lifesaving
Danish Observations about American Ventilator Users
On Holiday at Netley Waterside House | New York's Consumer-Directed Home Care Program: Chapter 2
Swimming in Lake Shasta | Potpourri: Creative Writing Guides; EZ Keys for Windows; Christopher Reeve
Book: Pulmonary Rehabilitation: The Obstructive and Paralytic Conditions
1995
Fall 1995, Vol. 9, No. 2
Consumer-Directed Home Care Program Saved from New York Budget Ax and Expanded
The Tracheotomized Patient: Tracheal Toilet and Speech | Suggestions for Avoiding Respiratory Complications
Life with a Tracheostomy: A Personal Decision
In-Home Care Standards for Frequency of Ventilator Tubing Changes
Potpourri: Report on Domiciliary Mechanical Ventilation in Denmark; Ventilator Registry Project by the AARC; White Trach Caps; Christopher Reeve
A Summer Plague: Polio and Its Survivors
Spring 1995, Vol. 9, No. 1
Longterm Home Ventilation and Living Independently: The Users' Perspectives
Some State Budgets Cut Attendant Care | In Memoriam: Edward V. Roberts
Children and Teens as Ventilator Users | Comparison of Commercial & Custom Nasal/Face Masks
A Well-Traveled Ventilator User | Finland: Ventilator Use
Potpourri: Netley Waterside House; Home Mechanical Ventilation proceedings
1994
Fall 1994, Vol. 8, No. 2
Demands of Caregiving for Home-Based Ventilator-Assisted Individuals: A Preliminary Report
Home Mechanical Ventilation: Obstacles to Living at Home | Noninvasive vs. Invasive Ventilation
From Trach-Free to Trached to Trach-Free Again | Forum for Ventilator Users:
Improving Cough and Decreasing Infection
Changing Equipment as Diagnoses Change – Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome, Muscular Dystrophy, Spinal Cord Injury, Diaphragm Pacing
Living at Home: Overcoming Obstacles – Pediatric Issues, France and Longterm Ventilation
Spring 1994, Vol. 8, No. 1
Other Advice for Ventilator Users | Considering a Change to Noninvasive Ventilation
Positive Pressure by Trach: My Choice | Ventilator-Assisted Infants with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
CCHS Conference | The Individual Remmer Nasal Mask
Mask Program Helps Health Care Professionals with Patient Compliance and Comfort
Update: HCFA Ventilator Policy
1993
Fall 1993, Vol. 7, No. 2
Air Scuba ... or I Can't Walk But I Can Fly | Ventilator Reimbursement Issues
Advice for the New Ventilator User | Nasal Mask Adjustment Tips | Homemade Suction Machine
Children as Ventilator Users: Obstacles to Discharge for Ventilator-Assisted Children
CCHS Networking: How It Began | Issues and Challenges of a Technology-Dependent Child
The Perfect Portable Ventilator
Spring 1993, Vol. 7, No. 1
Communication for the Ventilator User with a Tracheostomy | The Cof-flator Revisited
Portable Positive Pressure Ventilators: A History | Profile: Bill Kibbie
New SSI Rule May Benefit Children | Sailing with a Ventilator | Mobility and ALS | Nasal Mask Adjustments
1992
Fall 1992, Vol. 6, No. 2
Rebel with a Cause | Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome: A Family Profile
Respirator Use in Denmark | California Budget Hurts Ventilator Users | Ventilator Adaptations
Dentist Visits | From the Brink | Travel & Ventilators: Florida or Bust!; Ventilator User Settles Airline Suit
Spring 1992, Vol. 6, No. 1
Ventilator Use in Japan | Spring Has Come |
More on Ventilator Considerations: Lease vs. Purchase | Saludos from Spain
Travel & Ventilators: Travel by Air "With Air" Is Possible; Flying with Your Ventilator; Airline Criteria; Travel Insurance for Ventilators?; DOT Issues Air Travel Booklet for People with Disabilities
1991
Fall 1991, Vol. 5, No. 2
Ventilator Considerations: Lease vs. Purchase | Murphy's Law as It Applies to Ventilators
Negative Pressure Ventilation with Progressive SMA | Musings: The Question Earthquakes Ask
Medicaid: U.S. Drops Nursing Restrictions | IVUN Survey Replies | How to Survive in Today's Hospitals
Spring 1991, Vol. 5, No. 1
Georgia Ventilator User Now Lives Independently
Cost Comparison of Ventilator Care in Minnesota: Is Home Really Cheaper?
Who Pays for Ventilators for Polio Survivors? | Health Has No Frontiers
Complete Home Attendant Care ... Someday | IVUN Survey | Musings: About a Fatal Cliché
A Ventilator Assisted Child Becomes an Adult: What Then?
Ventilator User to Head California Department of Rehabilitation
1990
Fall 1990, Vol. 4, No. 2
Breathing Failure in ALS & Handling Emergencies | For the Shape I'm In, I'm in Pretty Good Shape
In Memoriam: David Muir | Consider Yourself a Home Care Ventilation Equipment Consumer
"On" a Ventilator? | Musings: Into the Wonderland of Words and Ventilators | Home Ventilation in Germany
SCI Quads May Need Night Ventilation | National Center for Home Mechanical Ventilation
Spring 1990, Vol. 4, No. 1
Quality of Life Perceptions of Ventilator-Assisted Individuals
Health Care Reform | Notes from Australia | Advocacy and Action by and for Ventilator Users
Kangaroo Kids: An Idea Whose Time Has Come | Home Mechanical Ventilation Workshop Proceedings
Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders | Don't Get Caught with Your Battery Down!
Home Ventilation in Children & Adolescents | One Person's Perspective
Musings: The Need for a Cat on Every Home Ventilator
Blitzer Report No. 6: Nose News | Palo Alto VA's SCI Service | Custom-Built Mask
Ventilator User? Ventilator-Assisted? Ventilator-Dependent?
1989
Fall, Vol. 3, No. 2 (no articles online)
Gini Laurie, 1913-1989: In Memoriam | Musings: On Independence | Home Ventilator Manufacturers
Proceedings of the Home Mechanical Ventilation Workshop, GINI's 5th International Polio & Independent Living Conference
Blitzer Report No. 5: Nose News
Spring, Vol. 3, No. 1 (no articles online)
Erin's Story: Yes, You Can Outgrow the Need for a Ventilator!
Thoughts on ALS and Ventilators | Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation in Australia
Advocacy Group for Ventilator Dependent People in Southern California
From Rocking Bed to Nasal Mask ... Successfully | On Swallowing and Saliva
Non-invasive Alternatives to Tracheostomy | Musings: A Continuing Column | Blitzer Report No. 4: Nose News
Ventilators and Muscular Dystrophy Handbook | Respiratory Polio Survivors
1988
Fall, Vol. 2, No. 2 (no articles online)
Special Feature: Underventilation | Porta-Lung for Travel | Blitzer Report 3: Nose-Positive Ventilation Masks
Spring, Vol. 2, No. 1 (no articles online)
The Iron Lung: A User's Guide | Life after Lung | User's Videotape of Aequitron's LP6
English Research | Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation by Face Mask or Nose
NPPV in Nocturnal Ventilator Dependent Patients with Musculoskeletal Disorders
Living and Traveling with Ventilators
1987
Fall, Vol. 1, No. 2 (no articles online)
Face Mask Networking | A Progress Report for Positive (Pressure) Thinkers
The Face Mask Alternative | GPB for High Level Quads | Hands-Free Two-Way Radio
Families of SMA | Catch-22 for Home Care for Ventilator Assisted Children
Spring, Vol. 1, No. 1 (no articles online)
Welcome to IVUN! | Ventilator Assisted Home Care Program | Customized Face Mask for Night Ventilation
Mobile Ventilator Unit | A Chair That Goes Sailing | Iron Lung History in JAMA
Kaufert Studies Respiratory Technology and Psychosocial Adaptation
23 Years Later: Australian Noelene Heley Still Uses Portable Lung on Kangaroo Hunts