Objectives: To evaluate the feasibility and outcome of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) in daily clinical practice. Design: Observational retrospective cohort study. Setting: Pediatric ...

As with conventional EMV, NIPPV aims to deliver adequate tidal volumes to enhance gas exchange. Toward this goal, ventilator parameters such as positive end-expiratory pressure, peak inspiratory ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A meta-analysis recently published in JAMA suggests that home noninvasive positive pressure ventilation, or ...

Some patients with exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exhibit clear contraindications to noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV); such contraindications include impending ...

The need for reintubation after extubation and discontinuation of mechanical ventilation is not uncommon and is associated with increased mortality. Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation has been ...

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In patients with COPD and hypercapnia, the use of home noninvasive positive pressure ventilation compared with no device was significantly associated with improved clinical outcomes but no significant ...