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Saving Lives with High-Flow Nasal Oxygen.
N Engl J Med. 2015 May 17;
Authors: Matthay MA
Abstract
First reported in 1890,(1) therapy with oxygen constitutes one of the fundamental advances in clinical medicine. It is an essential treatment for acute and chronic respiratory failure, a supportive therapy for general anesthesia and most surgical procedures, and an adjunctive treatment for patients with shock from sepsis, trauma, or cardiac failure. For spontaneously breathing patients with acute respiratory failure, various methods for providing supplemental oxygen have been studied. Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation with a tight-fitting face mask reduces morbidity and mortality among selected patients with acute respiratory failure caused by an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.(2),(3) Noninvasive ventilation also . . .
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