Open AccessNoninvasive ventilation for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the emergency department: early predictors of in-hospital outcome
Author(s) -
R. Ferrari,
Fabrizio Giostra,
Daniela Agostinelli,
Giacomo Monti,
Daniela P. Pomata,
Mario Cavazza
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
emergency care journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2282-2054
pISSN - 1826-9826
DOI - 10.4081/ecj.2012.2.43
Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , noninvasive ventilation , pulmonary disease , acute respiratory failure , emergency medicine , etiology , intensive care medicine , ventilation (architecture) , respiratory failure , mechanical ventilation , mechanical engineering , psychiatry , engineering
The applications of early non-invasive ventilation (NIV) are nowadays expanding in the Emergency Department (ED) for the treatment of different types and etiologies of acute respiratory failure (ARF) Emergency physicians (EP) often face the challenge of predicting short-term outcomes for patients with ARF in the E