FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 350:2512-2515 June 10, 2004 Number 24 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text PDF PDA Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited E-mail When Letters Appear Related Article by Esteban, A. PubMed Citation

Noninvasive mechanical ventilation has been used increasingly over the past decade in an effort to avoid endotracheal intubation and to accelerate the discontinuation of mechanical ventilation. Noninvasive ventilation as adjunctive therapy can be applied before intubation or after extubation (Figure 1). The literature indicates that in both settings, outcomes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or cardiogenic pulmonary edema are successful.¹ Randomized, controlled trials also provide outcome data supporting the use of noninvasive ventilation to obviate the need for endotracheal intubation in immunosuppressed patients who have bilateral infiltrates and patients who are recovering from lung resection.¹

View larger version (19K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 

Source Information

From the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (J.D.T.); and the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville (G.R.B.).

This article has been cited by other articles:

• Girard, T. D., Bernard, G. R. (2007). Mechanical Ventilation in ARDS: A State-of-the-Art Review. Chest 131: 921-929 [Abstract] [Full Text]  
• Lermitte, J., Garfield, M. J (2005). Weaning from mechanical ventilation. Contin Educ Anaesth Crit Care Pain 5: 113-117 [Abstract] [Full Text]  
• Eltzschig, H. K., Eckle, T., Felbinger, T. W., Lavietes, M. H., Kumar, S., Sinha, B., Joy, M., Sutherland, E. R., Cherniack, R. M. (2004). Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. NEJM 351: 1461-1463 [Full Text]  
• Tarnow-Mordi, W. O., Gebski, V., Cust, A., Diaz-Lobato, S., Mayoralas-Alises, S., Villamor, J., Lipson, D. A., Sager, J. S., Esteban, A., Frutos-Vivar, F., Anzueto, A. (2004). Noninvasive Ventilation. NEJM 351: 1257-1259 [Full Text]  
• (2004). Can Noninvasive Ventilation Prevent Reintubation?. JWatch General 2004: 4-4 [Full Text]