2011 - Review: Adding noninvasive ventilation to standard therapy improves outcomes in patients with some causes of acute respiratory failure
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- 2011 - Review: Adding noninvasive ventilation to standard therapy improves outcomes in patients with some causes of acute respiratory failure. Shafazand, Shirin // ACP Journal Club;6/21/2011, Vol. 154 Issue 6, p6
Question What is the efficacy of noninvasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure? Review scope Included studies compared noninvasive ventilation (noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation [NPPV] or continuous positive airway pressure [CPAP]) with standard therapy or each other in adults in...
- Review: Noninvasive ventilation reduces mortality in acute respiratory failure. Sinuff, Tasnim // ACP Journal Club;Sep/Oct2002, Vol. 137 Issue 2, p50
Compares the effectiveness of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) versus standard medical therapy in reducing mortality in patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF). Effects of noninvasive ventilation on patients with acute respiratory failure secondary to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...
- 2011 - Noninvasive ventilation reduced need for intubation in elderly patients with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure. Whalen, Francis // ACP Journal Club;2/21/2012, Vol. 156 Issue 2, p1
The article focuses on the role of noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) in reducing the need for intubation in elderly patients with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure. It states that noninvasive mechanical ventilation reduces the need for endotracheal intubation and mortality as compared...
- COMMENTARY: Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation increased
risk for death in respiratory failure after extubation. Sinuff, Tasnim // ACP Journal Club;Nov/Dec2004, Vol. 141 Issue 3, p71
The article presents a commentary on the study, which concluded that noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NIPPV) increased risk for death in respiratory failure after extubation. The addition of NIPPV to standard medical therapy for acute respiratory failure (ARE) may reduce endotracheal...
- Review: Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation reduces intubation and length of ICU stay in acute respiratory failure. Carroll, Gilbert C. // ACP Journal Club;Jul/Aug2005, Vol. 143 Issue 1, p43
This article presents information on a study related to noninvasive positive pressure ventilation that reduces intubation and length of intensive care unit stay in acute respiratory failure. Randomized controlled trials that included 60% of patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure not...
- Noninvasive Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Failure. Hess, Dean R. // Respiratory Care;Jun2013, Vol. 58 Issue 6, p950
Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) for acute respiratory failure has gained much academic and clinical interest. Despite this, NIV is underutilized. The evidence strongly supports its use in patients presenting with an exacerbation of COPD and in patients with acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema. As...
- Noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure in children - a systematic review. Gonzaga, Carolina Silva; da Silva, Dafne Cardoso Bourguignon; Alonso, Carolina Figueira Rabello; de Oliveira, Carlos Augusto Cardim; de Ara�jo Torre�o, Lara; Troster, Eduardo Juan // Einstein (16794508);Jan-Mar2011, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p90
Objective: To assess the role of noninvasive ventilation in the treatment of children with acute respiratory failure. Methods: A systematic review of literature on noninvasive ventilation in MEDLINE, LILACS, EMBASE, and Cochrane databases, besides references in articles. The outcomes evaluated...
- CITATIONS AND CLINICIANS' NOTES: INTENSIVE CARE. // Current Medical Literature: Respiratory Medicine;2005, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p23
Presents citations and clinicians' notes about intensive care medicine for respiratory diseases. Outcome in noninvasively and invasively ventilated hematologic patients with acute respiratory failure; Outcomes up to 5 years after severe, acute respiratory failure; Yield of flexible fiber optic...
- Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation increased risk for death
in respiratory failure after extubation. // ACP Journal Club;Nov/Dec2004, Vol. 141 Issue 3, p71
The article addresses the question how noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NIPPY) compares with standard medical therapy for mortality in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) with respiratory failure within 48 hours after extubation. The article adds that in patients in the intensive...


