Open AccessNoninvasive ventilation in acute hypoxic respiratory failure in medical intensive care unit: A study in rural medical college
Author(s) -
Aditya Bajaj,
Sunil Kumar,
Anil Inamdar,
Laxmi Agrawal
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of critical illness and injury science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.274
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2231-5004
pISSN - 2229-5151
DOI - 10.4103/ijciis.ijciis_40_18
Subject(s) - medicine , ards , intensive care unit , intubation , ventilation (architecture) , mechanical ventilation , anesthesia , respiratory rate , respiratory distress , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , respiratory failure , mortality rate , blood pressure , heart rate , lung , mechanical engineering , engineering
Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) has emerged as an important tool for the management of acute hypoxic respiratory failure (AHRF) and has been the area of research in the last two decades. In this study, we have tried to find out the outcome of NIV in patients with AHRF.