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Home Non-Invasive Ventilation for COPD: How, Who and When?
Archivos de bronconeumologia - 1 Mar 2018
Murphy Patrick B, Hart Nicholas
Abstract excerpt
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic respiratory failure have high levels of morbidity and mortality. The clinical efficacy of long term home oxygen therapy has been well documented in this patient group but despite the efficacy of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) during acute decompensated respiratory failure the addition of home NIV has been associated with equivocal results. The...
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