This research will study whether noninvasive ventilation (NIV) used to treat chronic respiratory insufficiency in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can be initiated as successfully in the outpatient setting as in the conventional inpatient setting, and what the costs of these alternative initiation methods are.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
120
NIV initiation according to standard care
Tampere University Hospital
Tampere, Finland
NIV usage hours according to different initiation locations in patients with ALS
NIV daily usage hours in the 3-month control after initiation (determined over the preceding month)
Time frame: 5 years
Compliance with NIV according to NIV initiation setting in patients with ALS
Association between the initiation method and the patients' compliance with the goal of using NIV more than 4 hours per day.
Time frame: 5 years
Decrease in blood carbon dioxide levels in patients with ALS depending on the place of NIV initiation.
The effectiveness of the treatment on the reduction of blood carbon dioxide pressure
Time frame: 5 years
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