"Walking with Only Noninvasive Ventilation in Stable Hypercapnic COPD Patients: Sufficient or not?"

"Walking with Only Noninvasive Ventilation in Stable Hypercapnic COPD Patients: Sufficient or not?" COPD. 2016 Mar 25;:1 Authors: Walker DJ, Windisch W, Dreher M Abstract We are grateful to Ulasli and Esquinas for their comments to our paper.. They argued that arterial blood gas analyses were not performed without oxygen prior to the 6-minute walk test with noninvasive ventilation (6MWT-NPPV). This point has already been discussed in our original work by indicating the limitations of our study. The reason for using oxygen prior to exercise testing was to guarantee comparable starting conditions. PMID: 27015039 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: COPD Source Type: research