Non-invasive ventilation: don't push too hard

Non-invasive ventilation: don't push too hard. New england journal of medicine, Vol. 350(24), June 2004. [journal article]

Truwit, J.D. and Bernard, G.R.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/350/24/2512.pdf

Noninvasive mechanical ventilation has been used increasingly over the past decade in an effort to avoid endotracheal intubation and to accelerate the discontinuation of mechanical ventilation. Noninvasive ventilation as adjunctive therapy can be applied before intubation or after extubation. The literature indicates that in both settings, outcomes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or cardiogenic pulmonary edema are successful.