High-flow nasal cannula failure in critically ill cancer patients with acute respiratory failure: Moving from avoiding intubation to avoiding delayed intubation.

Colombe SaillardJérôme LambertMorgane TramierLaurent Chow-ChineMagali BisbalLuca ServanFrederic GonzalezJean-Manuel de GuibertMarion FaucherAntoine SanniniDjamel Mokart

Published in: PloS one (2022)

Duration of HFNC may be predictive of an excess mortality in ARF cancer patients. Early warning scores to predict HFNC failure are needed to identify patients who would benefit from early intubation.

Keyphrases

respiratory failure
cardiac arrest
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
mechanical ventilation
papillary thyroid
acute respiratory distress syndrome
squamous cell
type diabetes
lymph node metastasis