A comparison of noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation and conventional mechanical ventilation in patients with acute respiratory failure

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 339, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 429-435

  Antonelli, Massimo ^a   Conti, Giorgio ^a   Rocco, Monica ^a   Bufi, Maurizio ^a   De Blasi, Roberto Alberto ^a   Vivino, Gabriella ^a   Gasparetto, Alessandro ^a   Meduri, Gianfranco Umberto ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINUSITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MASKS; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0032514508     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199808133390703     Document Type: Article

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