Covid-19: CPAP reduces need for invasive mechanical ventilation in patients requiring oxygen, study finds

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) reduced the need for invasive mechanical ventilation in adults admitted to hospital with acute respiratory failure due covid-19, a trial has found.1 The Recovery Respiratory Support compared CPAP, high flow nasal oxygenation (HFNO), and conventional oxygen therapy among inpatients covid-19 who required therapy, looking at rates of tracheal intubation or mortality within 30 days each treatment. A preprint findings reported that neither CPAP nor HFNO, when any point. During first peak UK, 80.4% …