• Nicholas S Hill, Giulia Spoletini, Gregory Schumaker, and Erik Garpestad.
• Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts. nhill@tuftsmedicalcenter.org.
• Respir Care. 2019 Jun 1; 64 (6): 647-657.

AbstractNoninvasive ventilation is well established as the ventilatory modality of first choice to treat acute or acute-on-chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure in patients with COPD by improving dyspnea and gas exchange, avoiding the need for intubation, and reducing morbidity and mortality rates. Noninvasive ventilation also offers benefit for patients with COPD and with accompanying pneumonia or with hypercapnic respiratory failure in postextubation, postoperative, and do not intubate settings. Noninvasive ventilation, in addition, offers benefit in other forms of acute hypercapnic respiratory failure, including those caused by asthma, cystic fibrosis, and obesity hypoventilation. A newer form of noninvasive ventilatory assistance, high-flow nasal cannula, has emerged in recent years as a technique to not only oxygenate effectively but also to improve ventilatory efficiency and reduce the work of breathing in patients with severe COPD. Results of recent studies indicate that high-flow nasal cannula therapy can benefit some patients with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure, either instead of or in combination with noninvasive ventilation, but more study is needed.Copyright © 2019 by Daedalus Enterprises.

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