A Comprehensive View of Noninvasive Ventilation

Noninvasive ventilation (NIV), often referred to interchangeably as noninvasive positive pressure ventilation, is the focus of the current issue. One of the earliest uses of the modern day NIV machines dates to the 1940s when a group from Columbia University at Bellevue Hospital devised an “automatic respirator” to provide intermittent positive pressure ventilation using a facemask for patients with acute respiratory failure.1 NIV was used during the polio epidemic and was especially important for those with disabilities and chronic respiratory failure to be able to live independe ntly in community-based living centers.
Source: Sleep Medicine Clinics - Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Tags: Preface Source Type: research