Impact of a Dedicated Noninvasive Ventilation Team on Intubation and Mortality Rates in Severe COPD Exacerbations

• Published in: Respiratory care Vol. 60; no. 10; p. 1404
• Main Authors: Vaudan, Stéphanie, Ratano, Damian, Beuret, Philippe, Hauptmann, John, Contal, Olivier, Garin, Nicolas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.10.2015
• Subjects: Aged; Disease Progression; Female; Hospital Mortality; Humans; Intensive Care Units - statistics & numerical data; Intubation, Intratracheal - statistics & numerical data; Length of Stay; Male; Middle Aged; Noninvasive Ventilation - methods; Noninvasive Ventilation - mortality; Patient Care Team - statistics & numerical data; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - complications; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - mortality; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - therapy; Respiratory Insufficiency - etiology; Respiratory Insufficiency - mortality; Respiratory Insufficiency - therapy; Retrospective Studies; Treatment Outcome; acute respiratory failure; noninvasive ventilation; ICU; respiratory therapist; intubation rate; COPD; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; mortality rate; stay

Compared with usual care, noninvasive ventilation (NIV) lowers the risk of intubation and death for subjects with respiratory failure secondary to COPD exacerbations, but whether administration of NIV by a specialized, dedicated team improves its efficiency remains uncertain. Our aim was to test whe...