Noninvasive respiratory support for acute respiratory failure-high flow nasal cannula oxygen or non-invasive ventilation?

Affiliations

¹ 1 Department of Anesthesia, St Michael's Hospital, and The Critical Illness and Injury Research Centre, Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science of St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; 2 Department of Anesthesia, 3 Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; 4 Department of Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, and The Critical Illness and Injury Research Centre, Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science of St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Gerard F Curley et al. J Thorac Dis. 2015 Jul.

. 2015 Jul;7(7):1092-7.

doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2015.07.18.

¹ 1 Department of Anesthesia, St Michael's Hospital, and The Critical Illness and Injury Research Centre, Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science of St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; 2 Department of Anesthesia, 3 Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; 4 Department of Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, and The Critical Illness and Injury Research Centre, Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science of St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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