Respiratory Events and Health-Related Quality of Life in Long-Term Noninvasive Ventilation: How Can We Optimize and Prevent Failure?

Respiratory Events and Health-Related Quality of Life in Long-Term Non-Invasive Ventilation: How Can We Optimize and Prevent Failure?

“…Nogueira Costa et al [2] suggest that it would have been beneficial to analyse data on exacerbations and therefore not to exclude patients with recent hospital admissions due to exacerbations. They hypothesize that exacerbations could have been triggered by poor adherence, which again could be due to a high frequency of undesired respiratory events during long-term non-invasive ventilation (LTNIV).…”