• Acta paediatrica · Sep 2015

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    Non-invasive ventilation is useful in paediatric intensive care units if children are appropriately selected and carefully monitored.

    • Pierre Demaret, André Mulder, Isabelle Loeckx, Marc Trippaerts, and Frédéric Lebrun.
    • Department of Paediatrics, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Centre Hospitalier Chrétien (clinique de l'Espérance), Liège, Belgium.
    • Acta Paediatr. 2015 Sep 1; 104 (9): 861-71.

    UnlabelledNon-invasive ventilation (NIV) is commonly used in paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) for respiratory failure. This review aims to improve paediatricians' understanding of NIV, by specifying technical or practical considerations, giving advice about selecting patients and presenting pertinent published data about NIV in different circumstances.ConclusionNIV is useful in PICUs if children are appropriately selected and carefully monitored. Technological advances and future clinical research will improve its use and success rate in PICU.©2015 Foundation Acta Paediatrica. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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