Effect of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation on mortality in patients admitted with acute respiratory failure: A meta-analysis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1685-1692

  Keenan, Sean P ^a,d   Kernerman, Philip D ^b   Cook, Deborah J ^c   Martin, Claudio M ^a   McCormack, David ^a   Sibbald, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ST JOSEPH S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory failure; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Critical care; Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0030760992     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199710000-00018     Document Type: Article

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