https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2021.1796
Non-invasive ventilation in the elderly – never too late!
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Published: 1 April 2021
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Practising evidence-based medicine in an ageing population is challenging. Nevertheless, using age as a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure contraindication is less and less common. Domiciliary non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in chronic respiratory failure patients has been largely used; however, data from older people is scarce...
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