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European Respiratory Society guidelines on long-term home non-invasive ventilation for management of COPD.

Begüm ErganSimon OczkowskiBram RochwergAnnalisa CarlucciMichelle ChatwinEnrico Maria CliniMark ElliottJesus Gonzalez-BermejoNicholas HartManel LujanJacek NasilowskiStefano NavaJean Louis PepinLara PisaniJan Hendrik StorrePeter WijkstraThomy ToniaJeanette BoydRaffaele ScalaWolfram Windisch
Published in: The European respiratory journal (2019)
Managing hypercapnia may be an important intervention for improving the health outcome of COPD patients with chronic respiratory failure. The task force conditionally supports the application of LTH-NIV to improve health outcome by targeting a reduction in carbon dioxide in COPD patients with persistent hypercapnic respiratory failure. These recommendations should be applied in clinical practice by practitioners that routinely care for chronic hypercapnic COPD patients.
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