Non-invasive ventilation in the treatment of ventilatory failure following corrective spinal surgery

✍ Scribed by M. J. Doherty; P. A. Millner; M. Latham; R. A. Dickson; M. W. Elliott

• Book ID: 104456542
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 309 KB
• Volume: 56
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-2409
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2001.01422.x

✦ Synopsis

Non‐invasive positive pressure ventilation has previously been used successfully to treat both acute and chronic ventilatory failure secondary to a number of conditions, including scoliosis. We report two patients in whom it was used, on three separate occasions, to treat acute ventilatory failure following corrective spinal surgery. Non‐invasive positive pressure ventilation may be useful postoperatively in high‐risk patients undergoing major spinal surgery in an attempt to prevent intubation and its attendant complications.