Using noninvasive ventilation to prevent extubation failure: it is good news, but do we really know what "high risk" means?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Critical Care, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Herries Road, Sheffield, S5 7AU, UK. alastair.glossop@sth.nhs.uk.
² Intensive Care and Non Invasive Ventilatory Unit, Hospital Morales Meseguer, Avenida Marques de Los Velez, Murcia, 30.008, Spain.

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Alastair J Glossop et al. Crit Care. 2016.

. 2016 Jul 4;20(1):213.

doi: 10.1186/s13054-016-1336-z.

¹ Department of Critical Care, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Herries Road, Sheffield, S5 7AU, UK. alastair.glossop@sth.nhs.uk.
² Intensive Care and Non Invasive Ventilatory Unit, Hospital Morales Meseguer, Avenida Marques de Los Velez, Murcia, 30.008, Spain.

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Easily identified at-risk patients for extubation failure may benefit from noninvasive ventilation: a prospective before-after study.
Thille AW, Boissier F, Ben-Ghezala H, Razazi K, Mekontso-Dessap A, Brun-Buisson C, Brochard L. Thille AW, et al. Crit Care. 2016 Feb 26;20:48. doi: 10.1186/s13054-016-1228-2. Crit Care. 2016. PMID: 26926168 Free PMC article.

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