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Critical Perspective Podcast: Non-Invasive Respiratory Support in Critically Ill Adults

Breathe Easy

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Monitoring Work of Breathing in Patients With Multiple Comorbidities

We often have patients with multiple comorbidities and you have to decide again as a clinician what's the most important for this patient. So oxygenation is certainly not the ultimate goal. It has to be efficient in terms of oxygenation but it's not sufficient. And we have seen in the past the number of patients who were well-oxinated but failed because of respiratory muscle fatigue, exhaustion or poor cardiac output and multiple organ failure.

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