Search Tag: hypercapnia

2024 28 Nov

  Non-invasive ventilation is extensively employed in the management of acute hypoxaemic and hypercapnic respiratory failure, offering a potential means to circumvent intubation in carefully selected patients under vigilant supervision.   Non-Invasive Ventilation Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) represents a respiratory support strategy...Read more

2017 28 May

Cardiac arrest (CA) causes ischaemic brain injury and persistent cerebral hypoperfusion and cerebral hypoxia during the early post-resuscitation period. PaCO2 is the major physiological regulator of cerebral blood flow, is a modifiable component of care and mild hypercapnia may lead to improved neurological outcomes for resuscitated CA survivors....Read more