SynthesisIntensive care medicine2011
Non-invasive ventilation in postoperative patients: a systematic review.
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The trial behind it
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Efficacy and Safety of Non-invasive Ventilation by Calibrated Leak in the Treatment of Respiratory Acidosis in ICU
Use of Electrical Impedance Tomography in Evaluating the Effects of Noninvasive Ventilation in the Post-Operative Cardiac Surgery: Controlled and Randomized Clinical Trial
Who cites it
46 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Perioperative oxygen therapy in patients undergoing surgical procedures: an overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2025Pooled it
- Predictors for prescription of noninvasive ventilation in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery: a systematic review.Annals of medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Clinical practice guidelines for the perioperative nutritional, metabolic, and nonsurgical support of the bariatric surgery patient--2013 update: cosponsored by American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, The Obesity Society, and American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2013Guideline
- Noninvasive Ventilation During Immediate Postoperative Period in Cardiac Surgery Patients: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgeryPooled it
- Clinical practice guidelines for the perioperative nutritional, metabolic, and nonsurgical support of the bariatric surgery patient--2013 update: cosponsored by American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, the Obesity Society, and American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery.Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical EndocrinologistsGuideline
- An Open Label Randomized Controlled Trial to Compare Low Level Pressure Support and T-piece as Strategies for Discontinuation of Mechanical Ventilation in a General Surgical Intensive Care Unit.Medical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) · 2018Trial
- Effect of prophylactic non-invasive mechanical ventilation on functional capacity after heart valve replacement: a clinical trial.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2017Trial
- Changing use of noninvasive ventilation in critically ill patients: trends over 15 years in francophone countries.Intensive care medicine · 2016Trial
- Early postoperative prophylactic noninvasive ventilation after major lung resection in COPD patients: a randomized controlled trial.Intensive care medicine · 2014Trial
- Does bilevel positive airway pressure improve outcome of acute respiratory failure after open-heart surgery?Annals of cardiac anaesthesiaTrial
- Extended-time of Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation Improves Tissue Perfusion after Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: a Randomized Clinical Trial.Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgeryTrial
- Identification of physiological clusters in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure patients undergoing non-invasive respiratory support using EIT-based t-SNE and spectral clustering.Intensive care medicine experimental · 2026Article
- Effect of the EzPAP system on tidal volume and airway pressures in healthy adults.Canadian journal of respiratory therapy : CJRT = Revue canadienne de la therapie respiratoire : RCTR · 2026Article
- Bridging the Gap: The Role of Non-Invasive Respiratory Supports in Weaning from Invasive Mechanical Ventilation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Comparison of the clinimetric properties of the two versions of the HACOR scale for predicting noninvasive ventilation failure in Brazilian patients.Acute and critical care · 2025Article
- Non-invasive Mechanical Ventilation in Lung Cancer: Physiological Principles and Clinical Utilization in Surgical and Non-surgical Settings.Thoracic research and practice · 2025Article
- Benefits of dexmedetomidine during noninvasive mechanical ventilation in major abdominal surgery patients with postoperative respiratory failure.Frontiers in surgery · 2024Article
- Personalized Noninvasive Respiratory Support in the Perioperative Setting: State of the Art and Future Perspectives.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Review
- Postoperative Pulmonary Complications and Perioperative Strategies: A Systematic Review.Cureus · 2023Review
- Maxillofacial free flap surgery outcomes in critical care: a single-center investigation looking for clues to improvement.Perioperative medicine (London, England) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundPostoperative pulmonary complications, generally defined as any pulmonary abnormality occurring in the postoperative period, are still a significant issue in clinical practice increasing hospital length of stay, morbidity and mortality. Non-invasive ventilation (NIV), primarily applied in cardiogenic pulmonary edema, decompensated COPD and hypoxemic pulmonary failure, is nowadays also used in perioperative settings.
objectiveInvestigate the application and results of preventive and therapeutic NIV in postsurgical patients.
designA systematic review. DATA SOURCES: Medical literature databases were searched for articles about "clinical trials," "randomized controlled trials" and "meta-analyses." The keywords "cardiac surgery," "thoracic surgery," "lung surgery," "abdominal surgery," "solid organ transplantation," "thoraco-abdominal surgery" and "bariatric surgery" were combined with any of these: "non-invasive positive pressure ventilation," "continuous positive airway pressure," "bilevel ventilation," "postoperative complications," "postoperative care," "respiratory care," "acute respiratory failure," "acute lung injury" and "acute respiratory distress syndrome."
resultsTwenty-nine articles (N=2,279 patients) met the inclusion criteria. Nine studies evaluated NIV in post-abdominal surgery, three in thoracic surgery, eight in cardiac surgery, three in thoraco-abdominal surgery, four in bariatric surgery and two in post solid organ transplantation used both for prophylactic and therapeutic purposes. NIV improved arterial blood gases in 15 of the 22 prophylactic and in 4 of the 7 therapeutic studies, respectively. NIV reduced the intubation rate in 11 of the 29 studies and improved outcome in only 1.
conclusionsDespite these limited data and the necessity of new randomized trials, NIV could be considered as a prophylactic and therapeutic tool to improve gas exchange in postoperative patients.
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