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 ...

Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation has been used as an alternative to invasive ventilation in patients with a “do-not-intubate” order. A recent study 46 that included 114 patients with a do-not ...

Abstract 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 patient’s lung volume, reduce ...

Among ICU patients, invasive ventilation was used less in Asian, Black and Hispanic patients vs. white patients, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society ...