Use of non-invasive ventilation to facilitate extubation in a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with hypercapnic respiratory failure

We present the case of a 44-year-old man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) intubated for hypercapnic respiratory failure and aspiration pneumonia. The patient was successfully extubated, transitioned to non-invasive ventilation and lived at home comfortably for 17 months, with good functional...

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Autores principales: Diaz-Abad, Montserrat, Chauhan, Chandana, Epps, Denise, Russell, James W., Kwan, Justin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6589641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31281603
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ni.2019.8102

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