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Nasal high flow reduces hypercapnia by clearance of anatomical dead space in a COPD patient

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with hypercapnia is associated with increased mortality. Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) can lower hypercapnia and ventilator loads but is hampered by a low adherence rate leaving a majority of patients insufficiently treated. Recently, nasal high flow (NH...

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Autores principales: Fricke, Kathrin, Tatkov, Stanislav, Domanski, Ulrike, Franke, Karl-Josef, Nilius, Georg, Schneider, Hartmut
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5024502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27668173
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2016.08.010