POSTOPERATIVE hypoxemia and/or acute respiratory failure (ARF) mainly develop after abdominal and/or thoracic surgery. Anesthesia, postoperative pain, and surgery will induce respiratory modifications: hypoxemia, decrease in pulmonary volume, and atelectasis associated with a restrictive syndrome and a diaphragm dysfunction. These modifications of the respiratory function occur early after surg...

Setting: A ward of respiratory medicine of a tertiaryreferral teaching hospital. Patients: The study group included 15 patients with acute respiratory acidosis. These patients had pH less than 7.35 and PaC02 more than 60mm Hg, respiratory rate of 30 breaths or less per minute, hemodynamic stability, and alertness and willingness of cooperation with the NMV treatment. The control group consisted...

Equipment needs for noninvasive mechanical ventilation. B. Schönhofer, S. Sortor-Leger. #ERS Journals Ltd 2002. ABSTRACT: Noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) has a long tradition for the treatment of chronic respiratory failure and more recently has also been applied in acute respiratory failure. Based on this experience both critical care ventilators and portable ventilators are used to p...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This critical review discusses the key points that would be of practical help for the clinician who applies noninvasive ventilation (NIV) for treatment of patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF). RECENT FINDINGS In recent years, the growing role of NIV in the acute care setting has led to the development of technical innovations to overcome the problems related to gas ...

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW A critical review of the most recent literature regarding use and clinical indications of noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIV). RECENT FINDINGS According to several randomized controlled trials, NIV has gained acceptance as the preferred ventilatory modality to treat acute respiratory failure (ARF) due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations, cardiogenic p...

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Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson on July 23 1986. That day also saw the first use in the United Kingdom of non-invasive positive pressure ventilation by nasal mask. Aged about fifty years, the patient had suffered pulmonary tuberculosis as a youngster and, in the days before antituberculous chemotherapy, had been treated with bilateral pneumothoraces, phrenic crush and finally an apical tho...

clinical problem, and making an early accurate diagnosis is quite difficult in most cases. After intubation, clinical manifestations of TEF are frequently air leak around the cuff and gastric distention.2 Massive gastric distention in intubated patients has been reported as an early marker for the defective airway,6 and this finding should alert that a communication may exist between the airway...

Noninvasive face mask ventilation has been used successfully in patients with paralytic respiratory failure. This study evaluated whether noninvasive face mask ventilation can be used for patients with acute respiratory failure due to intrinsic lung disease. Six patients with hypercapnia and four with hypoxemic acute respiratory failure met clinical and objective criteria for mechanical ventila...