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 …

By 2020, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will be the third cause of mortality.
Extrapulmonary comorbidities influence the prognosis of patients with COPD. Tobacco …

This Executive Summary of the Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and
Prevention of COPD, Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2017 …

Importance Outcomes after exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
requiring acute noninvasive ventilation (NIV) are poor and there are few treatments to …

Background Evidence is weak for the ability of long-term non-invasive positive pressure
ventilation (NPPV) to improve survival in patients with stable hypercapnic chronic obstructive …

Background While the role of acute non-invasive ventilation (NIV) has been shown to
improve outcome in acute life-threatening hypercapnic respiratory failure in COPD, the …

Background: Dyspnea is a common, distressing symptom of cardiopulmonary and
neuromuscular diseases. Since the ATS published a consensus statement on dyspnea in …

The complexity of central breathing disturbances during sleep has become increasingly
obvious. They present as central sleep apnoeas (CSAs) and hypopnoeas, periodic …

Rationale: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and obstructive
sleep apnea (OSA)(overlap syndrome) are more likely to develop pulmonary hypertension …

Introduction Chronic non-invasive ventilation (NIV) has become evidence-based care for
stable hypercapnic COPD patients. While the number of patients increases, home initiation …