ReviewIntensive care medicine2011
Palliative noninvasive ventilation in patients with acute respiratory failure.
Review in Intensive care medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 100 citations in OpenAlex.
- Temporal trends and prognostic factors in critically ill adult patients with acute leukemia: an individual participant data meta-analysis.Intensive care medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Noninvasive mechanical ventilation in patients having declined tracheal intubation.Intensive care medicine · 2013Trial
- Prehospital airway and ventilatory management: a collaborative and narrative review.Intensive care medicine · 2026Review
- Focus on the Role of Non-Invasive Respiratory Support (NRS) during Palliative Care in Patients with Life-Limiting Respiratory Disease.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Non-invasive ventilation in the care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with palliative care needs: a scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- Study on the therapeutic effects and prognosis evaluation of non-invasive ventilation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with lung cancer.Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine · 2024Article
- Evidence Guiding Withdrawal of Mechanical Ventilation at the End of Life: A Review.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2023Review
- A Survey for Assessment of Practical Aspects of End-of-life Practices across Indian Intensive Care Units.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2023Article
- Observational
- Trends in Noninvasive and Invasive Mechanical Ventilation Among Medicare Beneficiaries at the End of Life.JAMA internal medicine · 2021Article
- Observational
- [Noninvasive ventilation in acute respiratory insufficiency].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2018Article
- Application of palliative ventilation: potential and clinical evidence in palliative care.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2017Article
- The Role of Noninvasive Ventilation in Patients with "Do Not Intubate" Order in the Emergency Setting.PloS one · 2016Article
- Observational
- Improved ICU outcomes in ARDS patients: implication on long-term outcomes.Intensive care medicine · 2014Article
- Noninvasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2014Review
- Noninvasive ventilation at the end of life: and now?Intensive care medicine · 2013Article
- Epidemiology of noninvasive mechanical ventilation in acute respiratory failure--a retrospective population-based study.BMC emergency medicine · 2013Article
- Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2011: III. ARDS and ECMO, weaning, mechanical ventilation, noninvasive ventilation, pediatrics and miscellanea.Intensive care medicine · 2012Review
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Over the last two decades, the increasing use of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) has diminished the need for endotracheal ventilation, thus decreasing the rate of ventilation-induced complications. Thus, NIV has decreased both intubation rates and mortality rates in specific subsets of patients with acute respiratory failure (e.g., patients with hypercapnia, cardiogenic pulmonary edema, immune deficiencies, or post-transplantation acute respiratory failure). NIV is also increasingly used as a palliative strategy when endotracheal ventilation is deemed inappropriate. In this context, palliative NIV can either be administered to offer a chance for survival, or to alleviate the symptoms of respiratory distress in dying patients. The literature provides information from 10 studies published between 1992 and 2006, in which 458 patients received palliative NIV. The technique was feasible, usually well tolerated, and half of the patients survived. The objectives of this review article are to define palliative NIV, to delineate the place for palliative NIV among overall indications of NIV, and to define the contribution of NIV to the palliative strategies available for patients with acute respiratory failure. Potential benefits and harm from NIV in patients who are not eligible for endotracheal ventilation are discussed. The appropriateness of palliative NIV should be reported in a study that relies on both quantitative criteria (rate of palliative NIV use and mortality) and qualitative criteria (patient comfort, end-of-life process, family burden, and health-care provider satisfaction).
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