OBJECTIVE To find, critically appraise and synthesise all published studies so as to determine the safety and spectrum of use of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation for acute respiratory failure following oesophagectomy. DESIGN Systematic review. METHODS The MEDLINE and EMBASE databases were searched and the quality of the studies and any bias or confounding were rated according to es...

conclusions: rsbi and apache ii score in patients with copd exacerbation are of the ability to predict niv requirement, as a predicting factor of non-invasive ventilation requirement. results: patients requiring niv included 43.9 % of all studied patients. rsbi and apache ii score with sensitivity of 94.8 %, (cut off point = 110) and 72 % (cut off point = 14) respectively, had high diagnostic s...

INTRODUCTION We were able to treat a patient with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who also suffered from sleep-disordered breathing by using the average volume-assured pressure support mode of a Respironics V60 Ventilator (Philips Respironics: United States). This allows a target tidal volume to be set based on automatic changes in inspiratory positive airway pressur...

A 13 yr old male with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia who received bilevel positive airway pressure ventilation via a face mask for post-transplant pneumonitis developed subcutaneous emphysema, radiographic evidence of pulmonary interstitial emphysema, pneumomediastinum and 6 h later, right hemiparesis and focal livedo reticularis. This case illustrates that severe barotrauma may complicate nonin...

Abbreviations: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD; chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure, CHRF; noninvasive ventilation, NIV; inspiratory positive airway pressure, IPAP; breathing frequencies, BF; health-related quality of life, HRQoL; partial arterial carbon dioxide pressure, PACO2 Citation: Duiverman ML, Wijkstra PJ. Editorial. Long-term noninvasive ventilation in COPD: is high-int...