Titration and follow‐up for home noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: The potential role of tele‐monitoring and the Internet of things

Introduction Home noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) has become a well-established treatment for stable hypercapnic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. There are still other challenges including appropriate titration of ventilator parameters, adequacy follow-up, monitoring, and management at home to ensure effectiveness security, improve quality life. The Internet Things (IoT) is the name given network devices “things” with built-in sensors, software, electronics, connectivity, which can communicate these objects over wireless networks then send data cloud platform. Reliable tele-monitoring transmission clinical parameters from hospitals have prompted development IoT-based NIPPV. Objectives This review provides an overview follow-up NIPPV focuses on different technologies, modalities, managements, cost-effectiveness used in mechanical ventilation. Data Source Literature search Web Science, PubMed, EMBASE was made find relevant articles about IoT last 15 years. We following terms: NIPPV, COPD, ventilation, telemedicine, tele-monitoring, management. Conclusion such as use emerging yielding findings. However, clear conclusions based RCT COPD patients only few large-scale multicenter studies required replication further validation.