Turkish J Pediatr
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For many decades, the primary treatment of acute respiratory failure has been mechanical ventilation. Intubation and mechanical ventilation carry complications such as upper respiratory system trauma, barotrauma, volutrauma, oxytrauma, atelectrauma, and nosocomial infection, and they increase mortality. Noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIMV) applied to a specially selected group of patients has more advantages than invasive ventilation, especially the decreased number of complications. ⋯ NIMV was performed successfully for 12 days without difficulty, and she was discharged from the hospital on the 55th postoperative day with normal clinical findings. Noninvasive ventilation has an increasing use in critically ill children. NIMV should be considered in prolonged mechanical ventilation and weaning failure from IMV in critically ill children.