BACKGROUND Respiratory failure is of concern in the postoperative period after cardiac surgeries. Invasive ventilation (intermittent positive pressure ventilation [IPPV]) carries the risks and complications of intubation and mechanical ventilation (MV). AIMS Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) is an alternative method and as effective as IPPV in treating insufficiency of respira...

BACKGROUND A breath-synchronized nebulization option that could potentially improve drug delivery during noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) is currently not available on single-limb circuit bilevel ventilators. The aim of this study was to compare urinary excretion of amikacin following aerosol delivery with a vibrating mesh nebulizer coupled to a single-limb circuit bilevel vent...

Citation Gray A, Goodacre S, Newby DE, Masson M, Sampson F, Nicholl J: Noninvasive ventilation in acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema. N Engl J Med 2008, 359:142-151 [1]. Background Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) (continuous positive airway pressure [CPAP] or noninvasive intermittent positivepressure ventilation [NIPPV]) appears to be of benefi t in the immediate treatment of patients with acute c...

The Monnal D is among the most widely used home ventilators with worldwide sales in excess Background – Some patients started on nasal intermittent positive pressure ventof 10 000 units (Taema Ltd, Paris, France). Between 1988 and 1993 we started 112 patients ilation (NIPPV) with the Monnal D ventilator deteriorate after a period. The effects on long term nasal intermittent positive pressure ve...

Background: Previous studies sought to identify survival or outcome predictors in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) requiring mechanical ventilation (MV), but their findings are inconsistent. This study aims to identify clinical predictors of in-hospital mortality among these patients. Material and methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 146 patients admit...

OBJECTIVE The SiPAP flow driver (Care Fusion, Dublin, Ohio, USA) offers synchronised nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation (sNIPPV) using an abdominal capsule. This study aims to describe the accuracy and effects of synchronised NIPPV using SiPAP in preterm infants. DESIGN Ten infants, born <28 weeks' gestation, receiving synchronised SiPAP-generated NIPPV, in 'biphasic trigger' mo...

Our aim was to verify in healthy subjects submitted to nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation (nIPPV) with a volumetric ventilator on controlled mode, whether changes in ventilator settings (delivered tidal volume (VT), respiratory frequency (fR) and inspiratory flow (V'I) could influence effective minute ventilation (V'E), thus allowing identification of the settings resulting in the...