Non-invasive ventilation as a first-line treatment for acute respiratory failure: "Real life" experience in the emergency department

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 772-777

  Antro, Camillo ^a   Merico, F ^a   Urbino, R ^a   Gai, V ^a  

^a MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMITTENT POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; NOSE ULCER; OBESITY HYPOVENTILATION SYNDROME; PH; PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREDICTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; APACHE; CARBON DIOXIDE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27844566723     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2004.018309     Document Type: Article

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