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Volume 344:2027-2028 June 28, 2001 Number 26
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Noninvasive Ventilation in Immunosuppressed Patients

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To the Editor: Hilbert and coworkers (Feb. 15 issue)1 report that immunosuppressed patients with pulmonary infiltrates, fever, and acute respiratory failure who were treated with noninvasive ventilation had a lower rate of endotracheal intubation, a lower rate of serious complications, and a lower mortality rate in the intensive care unit than patients who received standard care. We question whether oxygen supplementation with a Venturi mask represents an adequate standard of care for this group of patients. In a previous study,2 the authors reported on the merits of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in a similar population of patients. It is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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