Treating coronavirus hospital patients who have acute respiratory failure with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) reduces the need for invasive mechanical ventilation, new research suggests.

In hospitalized veterans with COVID-19, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) was associated with greater use of non-invasive ventilation (NIV), but booster vaccination reduced this risk, a retrospective ...

How does COPD affect patients’ lives and why is there an unmet need for additional management options? The key symptom of COPD is breathlessness, especially during daily activity, and the ...

A well-designed single center randomized controlled study of prophylactic NIV in hypoxemic immunocompromized patients (including 30 hematology patients) demonstrated highly significant benefit from ...

Out-of-hospital noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (PPV) in patients with severe respiratory distress significantly reduced rates of inhospital mortality and need for invasive ventilation, ...

Background: Noninvasive ventilation has been studied as a means of reducing complications among patients being weaned from invasive mechanical ventilation. We sought to summarize evidence comparing ...

Michael Steiner is local lead investigator (Leicester) for the RECOVERY RS trial. As the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic hits hospitals, the hiss and bubble of advanced respiratory support is ...

Non-invasive ventilation can be used to treat acute or chronic respiratory failure. Delivered through a face mask, it provides positive pressure to increase a patientâ s lung volume, reduce the work ...

Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation is a type of mechanical ventilation that does not require an artificial airway. Studies published in the 1990s that evaluated the efficacy of this technique ...

Christian Medical College (CMC) has opened an exclusive ward to manage severe cases of COVID-19 with a non-invasive respiratory support method. Under the non-invasive ventilation (NIV), oxygen is ...