Noninvasive ventilation in hypercapnic respiratory failure: from rocking beds to fancy masks

Annia Schreiber; Barbara Fusar Poli; Lieuwe D Bos; Raffaella Nenna

doi:10.1183/20734735.018918

Noninvasive ventilation in hypercapnic respiratory failure: from rocking beds to fancy masks

Breathe (Sheff). 2018 Sep;14(3):235-237. doi: 10.1183/20734735.018918.

Authors

Annia Schreiber¹, Barbara Fusar Poli¹, Lieuwe D Bos², Raffaella Nenna³

Affiliations

¹ Respiratory Intensive Care Unit and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Unit, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, Pavia, Italy.
² Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Dept of Respiratory Medicine and Dept of Intensive Care, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Dept of Paediatrics; "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Abstract

A chronological account of some of the significant research into the application of NIV in acute hypercapnic respiratory failure over recent decades http://ow.ly/L5bZ30ktEG6.