Late Breaking Abstract - Consultation difficulties and service shortages of medicinal products used by home ventilated patients have been already detected during the first two weeks of social distancing and pandemic’s quarantine

Abstract

450 adult individuals for this study provided feedback via an anonymous online questionnaire The research has been approved by the local ethics committee (#MS01/2020) To reach isolated people in quarantine and in self-isolation at home, too, participants for the survey were recruited online through social media The posts were placed on public social media pages and in non-public group sites For the investigation of consultation difficulties and service shortages for medicinal product we included using of any kind of medicinal product following the German Medicinal Product Act (MPG) by patients with mechanical ventilation in a home setting (31 ;14 after quarantine or isolation) Pandemic related difficulties in problem-solving home ventilated patients have already been identified in the first two weeks of contact restrictions, isolation or quarantine Non-user-solvable device problems encountered systemic difficulties in isolation A replacement cable could not be prescribed due the isolation;after a turbine failure, the device could not be replaced because the supplier's replacement devices had to be returned for new home ventilation stations Several hygiene deficiencies have been reported, caused by the lack of disinfectant or ventilation tubes In individual cases, material had to be used beyond the recommended maximum service life First detected bottlenecks during the initial two weeks of social distancing in Germany require more medicinal product related help for patients' safety in quarantine