Background Non‐invasive ventilation (NIV) with bi‐level positive airway pressure (BiPAP) is
commonly used to treat patients admitted to hospital with acute hypercapnic respiratory …

… ), and the role of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) for its treatment … a unique feature of acute
exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD). … associated with acidosis and hypercapnia, despite most of …

… after COPD exacerbations treated with invasive ventilation in … patients surviving a hypercapnic
exacerbation treated with NIV … outcome after hypercapnic COPD exacerbations requiring …

… Noninvasive ventilation is well established as the ventilatory modality of first choice to treat
acute or acute-on-chronic hypercapnic … of non-invasive ventilation for acute exacerbations of …

… of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) in chronic hypercapnic COPD … with stable, chronic hypercapnia
were treated with NIV and … Our minimum 4-week exacerbation-free interval was chosen …

… on the use of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) in acute hypercapnic respiratory failure (AHRF) …
protocol used in AHRF due to acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (…

… hypercapnia. The present study did not require patients to be hypercapnic and no reassessment
post-exacerbation … remission of hypercapnia in the post-exacerbation recovery phase. …

… In patients recovering from an episode of hypercapnic ARF due to COPD exacerbation, the
… patients with severe COPD exacerbation and moderate hypercapnic acute respiratory failure …

… efficacy of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in acute hypercapnic respiratory failure (AHRF). …
patients with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure due to acute exacerbations of COPD [23]. …

… hypercapnic COPD patients without recent exacerbation. The main result was that NHF was
similar to NIV in terms of decreasing hypercapnia … support in hypercapnic patients by NHF […