How to set up Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV)

Who Needs It?

1. Patients with moderate to severe COPD exacerbations
2. Those patients with cardiogenic pulmonary edema with increased work of breathing or hypercapnia
3. Patients with isolated blunt thoracic trauma
4. The immunocompromised patient with hypoxic respiratory failure
5. Patients who require pre-oxygenation prior to intubation