ArticleAnnals of intensive care2019
Effects of high-flow nasal cannula and non-invasive ventilation on inspiratory effort in hypercapnic patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a preliminary study.
Article in Annals of intensive care, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 52 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
A Strategy to Improve Management and Prolong LIFe Without Readmission for hYpercapnic Patients: The Simplify Project
The Physiologic Effects of Asymmetrical Versus Conventional High-flow Nasal Cannula in Acute Respiratory Failure. A Randomized Crossover Study.
A High-Flow Nasal Cannula Versus Noninvasive Ventilation in Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Single-blind Randomized Trial
Who cites it
52 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 101 citations in OpenAlex.
- High-Flow Nasal Cannula in Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The clinical respiratory journal · 2026Pooled it
- Impact of High-Flow Nasal Cannula for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation: A Systematic Review of Clinical and Physiological Outcomes.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2026Pooled it
- Comparison of clinical outcomes between high-flow nasal cannula and non-invasive ventilation in acute exacerbation of COPD: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Pooled it
- The effects of flow settings during high-flow nasal cannula support for adult subjects: a systematic review.Critical care (London, England) · 2023Pooled it
- High-Flow Nasal Oxygen versus Noninvasive Ventilation in Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Canadian respiratory journal · 2023Pooled it
- Comparison of High-Flow Nasal Cannula with Conventional Oxygen Therapy in Patients with Hypercapnic Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2023Pooled it
- High-Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen Therapy versus Non-Invasive Ventilation for AECOPD Patients After Extubation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2022Pooled it
- The efficacy and safety of high-flow nasal cannula therapy in patients with COPD and type II respiratory failure: a meta-analysis and systematic review.European journal of medical research · 2021Pooled it
- Physiological Effects of High-Flow Nasal Oxygen Compared With Conventional Oxygen Therapy: A Randomized Trial in Postextubation Patients.Critical care medicine · 2026Trial
- Performance of an indigenously developed high-flow nasal cannula device in healthy human volunteers.BMC anesthesiology · 2026Trial
- Physiological comparison of noninvasive ventilation and high-flow nasal oxygen on inspiratory efforts and tidal volumes after extubation: a randomized crossover trial.Critical care (London, England) · 2025Trial
- Home high-flow therapy during recovery from severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation: a mixed-methods feasibility randomised control trial.BMJ open respiratory research · 2025Trial
- The effects of real-time waveform analysis software on patient ventilator synchronization during pressure support ventilation: a randomized crossover physiological study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2024Trial
- Bronchodilator Efficacy of High-Flow Nasal Cannula in COPD: Vibrating Mesh Nebulizer Versus Jet Nebulizer.Respiratory care · 2024Trial
- Factors influencing nasal airway pressure and comfort in high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy: a volunteer study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2023Trial
- Home High-Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen Therapy for Stable Hypercapnic COPD: A Randomized Clinical Trial.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2022Trial
- High-flow nasal cannula versus conventional oxygen therapy in acute COPD exacerbation with mild hypercapnia: a multicenter randomized controlled trial.Critical care (London, England) · 2022Trial
- Non-invasive ventilation versus high-flow nasal oxygen for postextubation respiratory failure in ICU: a post-hoc analysis of a randomized clinical trial.Critical care (London, England) · 2021Trial
- Nasal High-flow Oxygen Versus Conventional Oxygen Therapy for Acute Severe Asthma Patients: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2021Trial
- High flow nasal therapy versus noninvasive ventilation as initial ventilatory strategy in COPD exacerbation: a multicenter non-inferiority randomized trial.Critical care (London, England) · 2020Trial
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Abstract
backgroundNon-invasive ventilation (NIV) is preferred as the initial ventilatory support to treat acute hypercapnic respiratory failure in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) may be an alternative method; however, the effects of HFNC in hypercapnic COPD are not well known. This preliminary study aimed at assessing the physiologic effects of HFNC at different flow rates in hypercapnic COPD and to compare it with NIV.
methodsA prospective physiologic study enrolled 12 hypercapnic COPD patients who had initially required NIV, and were ventilated with HFNC at flow rates increasing from 10 to 50 L/min for 15 min in each step. The primary outcome was the effort to breathe estimated by a simplified esophageal pressure-time product (sPTP
resultsBefore NIV initiation, the median [interquartile range] pH was 7.36 [7.28-7.37] with a PaCO
conclusionsApplying HFNC at 30 L/min for a short duration reduces inspiratory effort in comparison to 10 and 20 L/min, and resulted in similar effect than NIV delivered at modest levels of pressure support in hypercapnic COPD with mild to moderate exacerbation. Higher flow rates reduce respiratory rate but sometimes increase the effort to breathe. Using HFNC at 30 L/min in hypercapnic COPD patients should be further evaluated. Trial registration Thai Clinical Trials Registry, TCTR20160902001. Registered 31 August 2016, http://www.clinicaltrials.in.th/index.php?tp=regtrials&menu=trialsearch&smenu=fulltext&task=search&task2=view1&id=2008 .
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