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SUBMITTER: Park MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7408979 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Park Min Jeong MJ Cho Jae Hwa JH Chang Youjin Y Moon Jae Young JY Park Sunghoon S Park Tai Sun TS Lee Young Seok YS
Journal of clinical medicine 20200704 7
Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) is useful when managing critically ill patients. However, it is not easy to apply to elderly patients, particularly those with pneumonia, due to the possibility of NIV failure and the increased mortality caused by delayed intubation. In this prospective observational study, we explored whether NIV was appropriate for elderly patients with pneumonia, defined factors that independently predicted NIV failure, and built an optimal model for prediction of such failure. W ...[more]