The worldwide spread of noninvasive ventilation; too much, too little or just right?
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: In the past 20 years, use of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) has increased from rare to highly prevalent in many ICUs around the world. In a single 26-bed French ICU, NIV use for patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) due to COPD and cardiogenic pulmonary edema (CPE) increased from 20 % of ventilator starts in 1994 to nearly 90 % in 2001, associated with reductions in health care acquired pneumonias and ICU mortality from 20 to 8% and 21 % to 7%, respectively (1). In a serial survey of European ICUs performed in 1997 and 2002 (2,3), NIV use increased from 16 to 23 % of overall ventilator starts. In another serial survey conducted in more than 40 countries enrolling more than 18,000 ventilated patients, overall NIV use increased from 4.4 % to 11.1 % and to 14 % in 1998, 2004 and 2010, respectively (4,5). Between 1998 and 2004, use in
Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)
Author: Nicholas S Hill
Institution: Tufts Medical Center
Language: English
Subfield: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W88465554