Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in COPD

Noninvasive Positive-Pressure Ventilation Therapy in Patients with COPD

Noninvasive Positive-Pressure Ventilation.

Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson on July 23 1986. That day also saw the first use in the United Kingdom of non-invasive positive pressure ventilation by nasal mask. Aged about fifty years, the patient had suffered pulmonary tuberculosis as a youngster and, in the days before antituberculous chemotherapy, had been treated with bilateral pneumothoraces, phrenic crush and finally an apical tho...

Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in hospital setting.

Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) refers to the delivery of mechanical ventilation to the lungs using techniques that do not require an endotracheal intubation. In the past decade NPPV has gained wide acceptance and is now used more frequently after development of portable ventilators, new modes of ventilation and other equipments. This article will provide a comprehensive overvi...

Acute applications of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation.

Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV) has been used increasingly to treat acute respiratory failure (ARF). The best indications for its use are ARF in patients with COPD exacerbations, acute pulmonary edema, and immunocompromised states. For these indications, multiple controlled trials have demonstrated that therapy with NPPV avoids intubation and, in the case of COPD and immunocomp...

Weight gain in cachectic COPD patients receiving noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation.

BACKGROUND In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), body mass index (BMI) is an important predictor of survival. Little is known about the prevalence of malnutrition or longitudinal changes of BMI in patients undergoing noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV). METHODS In a cohort study of 141 patients with COPD and severe chronic respiratory failure (mean forced expiratory vo...