Identifying cancer subjects with acute respiratory failure at high risk for intubation and mechanical ventilation

• Published in: Respiratory care Vol. 59; no. 10; p. 1517
• Main Authors: Lemiale, Virginie, Lambert, Jérôme, Canet, Emmanuel, Mokart, Djamel, Pène, Frederic, Rabbat, Antoine, Kouatchet, Achille, Vincent, François, Bruneel, Fabrice, Gruson, Didier, Chevret, Sylvie, Azoulay, Elie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.10.2014
• Subjects: Aged; Bronchoalveolar Lavage; Female; France; Hemodynamics; Humans; Intensive Care Units; Intubation, Intratracheal; Male; Middle Aged; Neoplasms - complications; Radiography; Respiration, Artificial - methods; Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult - diagnostic imaging; Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult - etiology; Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult - therapy; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; respiratory failure; cancer mechanical ventilation; immunosuppression; outcome; noninvasive ventilation

We sought to identify risk factors for mechanical ventilation in patients with malignancies and acute respiratory failure (ARF). We analyzed data from a previous randomized controlled trial in which nonintubated oncology and hematology subjects with ARF were randomized to early bronchoalveolar lavag...