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Risk factors of unfavorable outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients treated with noninvasive ventilation for acute hypercapnic respiratory failure.

Sinem GüngörOzlem Yazicioglu MocinEylem TuncayEmine AksoyNezihe Ciftaslan GoksenogluBirsen OcaklıIlim IrmakCüneyt SaltürkNalan AdıgüzelZuhal Karakurt
Published in: The clinical respiratory journal (2020)
APACHE II ≥ 29 score, culture positivity, sepsis and pneumonia are the risk factors for NIV failure in COPD patients with ARF. COPD patients previously on home-based NIV showed half times less risk for NIV failure.
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