Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) face-mask ventilation is an easy and cheap option to manage a massive influx of patients presenting acute respiratory failure during the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak: A retrospective cohort study.
Sophie AlvisetQuentin RillerJérôme AboabKelly DilworthPierre-Antoine BillyYannis LombardiMathilde AzziLuis Ferreira VargasLaurent LaineMathilde LermuzeauxNathalie MémainDaniel SilvaTona TchoubouDaria UshmorovaHanane DabbaghSimon EscodaRémi LefrançoisAnnelyse NardiArmand NgimaVincent IoosPublished in: PloS one (2020)
CPAP is feasible in a non-ICU environment in the context of massive influx of patients. In our cohort up to 1/3 of the patients presenting with acute respiratory failure recovered without intubation.
Keyphrases
- respiratory failure
- positive airway pressure
- mechanical ventilation
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- obstructive sleep apnea
- end stage renal disease
- sars cov
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- sleep apnea
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- liver failure
- intensive care unit
- prognostic factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- cardiac arrest
- drug induced