Noninvasive ventilation for treating acute respiratory failure in AIDS patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

Marco Confalonieri,Edo Calderini,Susanna Terraciano,Giovanna Chidini,Enza Celeste,Giacomo Puccio,Cesare Gregoretti,Umberto G. Meduri

Noninvasive ventilation for treating acute respiratory failure in AIDS patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

2002

Marco Confalonieri
Edo Calderini
Susanna Terraciano
Giovanna Chidini
Enza Celeste
Giacomo Puccio
Cesare Gregoretti
Umberto G. Meduri

Objective. To compare noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) vs. invasive mechanical ventilation in AIDS patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP)-related acute respiratory failure (ARF).

Keywords:

Respiratory failure
Intensive care medicine
Anesthesia
Respiratory disease
Mechanical ventilation
Ventilation (architecture)
Artificial ventilation
Intubation
Complication
Positive pressure
Medicine
intensive care
pneumocystis carinii

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