CONTEXT In patients with acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema noninvasive ventilation may reduce intubation rate, but the impact on mortality and the superiority of one technique over another have not been clearly established. OBJECTIVE To systematically review and quantitatively synthesize the short-term effect of noninvasive ventilation on major clinical outcomes. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE and EM...

Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) includes various techniques for augmenting alveolar ventilation without an endotracheal airway. The theoretical advantages of this approach include avoiding the complications associated with endotracheal intubation, improving patient comfort, preserving airway defence mechanisms, speech and swallowing. The successful application of NIV in hypoxaemic acute respirato...

BACKGROUND Noninvasive ventilation has been studied as a means of reducing complications among patients being weaned from invasive mechanical ventilation. We sought to summarize evidence comparing noninvasive and invasive weaning and their effects on mortality. METHODS We identified relevant randomized and quasirandomized trials through searches of databases, conference proceedings and grey l...

BACKGROUND Because the continuity and integrity of the trachea are likely damaged to some extent after tracheostomy, the implementation of sequential ventilation has certain difficulties, and sequential invasive-noninvasive ventilation on patients after tracheostomy is less common in practice. The present study aimed to investigate the feasibility of invasive-noninvasive sequential weaning stra...

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Noninvasive ventilation for chest wall and neuromuscular disorders. J.M. Shneerson, A.K. Simonds. #ERS Journals Ltd 2002. ABSTRACT: Neuromuscular and chest wall disorders are individually uncommon but together form an important group of conditions that can lead to chronic ventilatory failure. This is best recognised in scoliosis, kyphosis, following a thoracoplasty, in muscular dystrophies, suc...

OBJECTIVES Evaluate the practice of providing enteral nutrition in critically ill children requiring noninvasive positive pressure ventilation. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING PICU within a quaternary care children's hospital. PATIENTS PICU patients older than 30 days requiring noninvasive positive pressure ventilation for greater than or equal to 24 hours from August 2014 to J...

BACKGROUND Myasthenic crisis (MC) is often associated with prolonged intubation and with respiratory complications. OBJECTIVES To assess predictors of ventilation duration and to compare the effectiveness of endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation (ET-MV) with bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP) noninvasive ventilation in MC. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Acad...

Mechanical ventilation is the most widely used supportive technique in intensive care units. Several forms of external support for respiration have long been described to assist the failing ventilatory pump, and access to lower airways through tracheostomy or endotracheal tubes had constituted a major advance in the management of patients with respiratory distress. More recently, however, new "...

INTRODUCTION This is the first report to describe the feasibility and effectiveness of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in the secondary treatment of bronchopulmonary dysplasia. CASE PRESENTATION A former male preterm of Caucasian ethnicity delivered at 29 weeks gestation developed severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia. At the age of six months he was in permanent tachypnea and dyspnea a...