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Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) immediately after extubation reduces ventilatory failure and 90-day mortality in patients with hypercapnia
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  1. I Stone
  1. The Royal London Hospital, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr I Stone, The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London E1 1BB, UK;ian.stone{at}bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.2010.141077

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    This randomised open controlled trial took place from 2005–7 in three Spanish intensive care units. The aim was to assess whether non-invasive ventilation (NIV) would prevent respiratory failure and hence re-intubation, an independent risk factor for mortality, nosocomial pneumonia and length of hospital stay in patients who developed hypercapnia (arterial carbon dioxide tension >45 mm Hg) during a spontaneous …

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