Determinants of Noninvasive Ventilation Success or Failure in Morbidly Obese Patients in Acute Respiratory Failure

Malcolm Lemyze,Pauline Taufour,Alain Duhamel,Johanna Temime,Olivier Nigeon,Nicolas Vangrunderbeeck,Stéphanie Barrailler,Gaëlle Gasan,Florent Pepy,Didier Thevenin,Jihad Mallat

Determinants of Noninvasive Ventilation Success or Failure in Morbidly Obese Patients in Acute Respiratory Failure

2014

Malcolm Lemyze
Pauline Taufour
Alain Duhamel
Johanna Temime
Olivier Nigeon
Nicolas Vangrunderbeeck
Stéphanie Barrailler
Gaëlle Gasan
Florent Pepy
Didier Thevenin
Jihad Mallat

Purpose Acute respiratory failure (ARF) is a common life-threatening complication in morbidly obese patients with obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS). We aimed to identify the determinants of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) success or failure for this indication.

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Prospective cohort study
Obstructive sleep apnea
Obesity hypoventilation syndrome
Ventilation (architecture)
Sleep apnea
Complication
Intensive care medicine
Acute respiratory failure
Diabetes mellitus
Medicine
noninvasive ventilation
Intubation
Body mass index

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