A recent study has linked long-term positive airway pressure therapy with improved survival in patients with COPD and ...

Postextubation respiratory support (non-invasive ventilation or high-flow nasal cannula applied at the time of extubation) has been reported in small-to-moderate-sized trials to reduce reintubation ...

Background: The pathogenesis of daytime hypercapnia (PaCO 2 ≥ 45 mm Hg) may be directly linked to the existence of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) per se, although only some patients ...

Dr. Marinacci: Given the progressive hypercapnic respiratory failure that was refractory to medical therapy and the constellation of findings on examination, imaging, and laryngoscopy, we ...

2022). Mekontso Dessap et al. (2009) used transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in patients with severe ARDS and found that hypercapnic acidosis induced by low-tidal volume ventilation and increasing ...

Objectives This study aims to understand the breadth of practice around end-of-life withdrawal of non-invasive advanced respiratory support (encompassing both continuous positive airway pressure and ...

Objective Anaesthesiology guidelines suggest that opioids worsen obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) despite no randomised controlled trial evidence. We therefore conducted a randomised controlled trial to ...

7 Department of Intensive Care Medicine, North Manchester General Hospital 8 Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester 9 Department of ...