Search Tag: non-invasive ventilation

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

2023 09 May

Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in blunt chest trauma patients without immediate life-threatening injuries is commonly used to prevent the need for endotracheal intubation. However, the actual benefits of NIV in this context have not been extensively studied. Existing literature in this field has been limited by variations in study designs, patient...Read more

2020 24 Oct

In seriously ill older adults or those near the end of life, acute respiratory failure is a common cause of hospitalisation. These hospitalisations are generally complicated by distressful respiratory symptoms and transitions that require the use of high-intensity, high-risk interventions, including invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) and non-invasive ventilation...Read more

2020 03 Mar

When people were embracing the New Millennium in 2000, none of us would have expected that humans would be plagued by several rounds of worldwide SARI outbreaks (i.e. Severe Acute Respiratory Infections) in the next two decades, such as SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) and pH1N1 (Pandemic Influenza H1N1)....Read more

2019 21 Mar

Professor Jean-Pierre Frat presented the results of the FLORALI-2 trial at the 39th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine . The study, ' Non-invasive ventilation versus high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy with apnoeic oxygenation for preoxygenation before intubation of patients with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure:...Read more