How the Human Factor may effect NIV success?
S Nava · Pneumologie · 2004 · Heft 08
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Zusammenfassung
The success of NIMV largely depends on the acceptance and compliance of the patient, and these are likely to be associated with the way that this method of ventilation is applied by the operator. The learning and training process that a hospital team gains throughout the years may be important in this respect. Literature data indirectly raise this suspicion. For example, in 1992 Foglio et al. concluded, after a retrospective study, that the use of NIMV was not more effective than standard medical treatment alone in acute respiratory failure (ARF) due to decompensated COPD, but the same group showed opposite resu…