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Intermittent daytime mouthpiece ventilation successfully augments nocturnal non-invasive ventilation, controlling ventilatory failure and maintaining patient independence
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- Published on: 2 September 2016
- Published on: 2 September 2016Mouthpiece intermittent positive pressure ventilation: An old yet underutilized technique for long-term management of respiratory muscle failure.Show More
Dear Authors,
We applaud your recognition that daytime mouthpiece intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) can serve as a practical alternative in cases of end stage respiratory muscle failure in which tracheostomy is usually the eventual conventional intervention of choice among the majority of today's clinicians. Lack of familiarity indeed seems to be the reason open-circuit mouthpiece ventilation, am...
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