High-Flow Oxygen Therapy Application in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients With Acute Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure: A Multicenter Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the effect of high-flow oxygen implementation on the respiratory rate as a first-line ventilation support in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure.

Design

Multicenter, prospective, analytic observational case series study.

Setting

Five ICUs in Argentina, between August 2018 and September 2019.

Patients

Patients greater than or equal to 18 years old with moderate to very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, who had been admitted to the ICU with a diagnosis of hypercapnic acute respiratory failure, were entered in the study.

Interventions

High-flow oxygen therapy through nasal cannula delivered using high-velocity nasal insufflation.

Measurements and main results

For

SUBMITTER: Plotnikow GA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7886497 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature