Gil Gonçalves, Haitham Saeed, Mohamed E Abdelrahim, Hadeer S Harb, Yasmin M Madney, Kevin Eng, Habid M R Karim, Mohamad El-Khatib, Bushra Mina, Szymon Skoczyński, Irena Sarc, Vânia Caldeira, Sara M Cabral, Bruno Cabrita, Miguel Guia, Jun Duan, Igor Barjaktarevic, Giuseppe Fiorentino, Edoardo Piervincenzi, Güniz Köksal, Sibel O Sarin, Peter J Papadakos, Benan Bayrakci, Vijay Hadda, G Laier-Groeneveld, Karen E A Burns, Raffaele Scala, Andres C Alcaraz, Antonio M Esquinas
Non-invasive ventilation has gained an increasingly pivotal role in the treatment of acute hypoxemic and/or hypercapnic respira-tory failure and offers multiple advantages over invasive mechanical ventilation. Some of these advantages include the preserva-tion of airway defense mechanisms, a reduced need for sedation, and an avoidance of complications related to endotracheal intubation. Despite its advantages, non-invasive ventilation has some contraindications that include, among them, severe encephalopathy...
2020: Advances in Respiratory Medicine