CAPE and Home Ventilation Program
Who we are
If your child has a chronic respiratory condition, Children’s Hospital Boston has a program that can provide comprehensive, customized home ventilation. Called CAPE, the Critical Care, Anesthesia Perioperative Extension program promotes high-quality, coordinated care to improve the lives of children who need long-term ventilator assistance.
Would my child benefit from a home ventilation program?
Many families who take part in our CAPE program have children with respiratory conditions relating to lung disease of prematurity, neuromuscular diseases—including spinal muscular atrophy and muscular dystrophy—or spinal cord injuries.
Conditions & Treatments
Our services
CAPE services are tailored to your child’s individual needs and include extensive home visits, outpatient clinics and inpatient consultation to meet a range of needs, including:
- long-term primary respiratory/pulmonary care and healthcare coordination with families and primary care providers with 24 hour/day response
- consultation and support to families, who are considering homecare of children requiring noninvasive respiratory care or transtracheal ventilator assistance
- critical care follow-up for short-term or temporary respiratory support as well as sedation and analgesia weans
- transitional/discharge care planning to coordinate with community services, rehabilitation facilities, and other acute care hospitals
- home ventilator equipment and environmental safety evaluations
- consultation services for at risk patients when planning critical care recovery and rehabilitation
- consultation and outreach to long-term care facilities for families that are not living in the community
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