Official ERS/ATS clinical practice guidelines: noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure

Bram Rochwerg; Laurent Brochard; Mark W Elliott; Dean Hess; Nicholas S Hill; Stefano Nava; Paolo Navalesi Members Of The Steering Committee; Massimo Antonelli; Jan Brozek; Giorgio Conti; Miquel Ferrer; Kalpalatha Guntupalli; Samir Jaber; Sean Keenan; Jordi Mancebo; Sangeeta Mehta; Suhail Raoof Members Of The Task Force

doi:10.1183/13993003.02426-2016

Official ERS/ATS clinical practice guidelines: noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure

Eur Respir J. 2017 Aug 31;50(2):1602426. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02426-2016. Print 2017 Aug.

Authors

Bram Rochwerg¹, Laurent Brochard^{2

3}, Mark W Elliott⁴, Dean Hess⁵, Nicholas S Hill⁶, Stefano Nava⁷, Paolo Navalesi Members Of The Steering Committee⁸, Massimo Antonelli⁹, Jan Brozek¹, Giorgio Conti⁹, Miquel Ferrer¹⁰, Kalpalatha Guntupalli¹¹, Samir Jaber¹², Sean Keenan^{13

14}, Jordi Mancebo¹⁵, Sangeeta Mehta¹⁶, Suhail Raoof Members Of The Task Force^{17

18}

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Medicine, Dept of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
² Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Keenan Research Centre and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.
⁵ Respiratory Care Dept, Massachusetts General Hospital and Dept of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁶ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Dept of Specialistic, Diagnostic and Experimental Medicine, Respiratory and Critical Care, Sant'Orsola Malpighi Hospital, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Stefanava@gmail.com.
⁸ Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Dept of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy.
⁹ Dept of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Catholic University of Rome, A. Gemelli University Hospital, Rome, Italy.
¹⁰ Dept of Pneumology, Respiratory Institute, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona and CIBERES, Barcelona, Spain.
¹¹ Depts of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
¹² Dept of Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology (DAR B), Research Unit INSERM U1046, Saint Eloi University Hospital and Montpellier School of Medicine, Montpellier, France.
¹³ Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
¹⁴ Dept of Critical Care Medicine, Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, BC, Canada.
¹⁵ Servei de Medicina Intensiva, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁶ Mount Sinai Hospital and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
¹⁷ Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
¹⁸ Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY, USA.

PMID: 28860265
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02426-2016

Abstract

Noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) is widely used in the acute care setting for acute respiratory failure (ARF) across a variety of aetiologies. This document provides European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society recommendations for the clinical application of NIV based on the most current literature.The guideline committee was composed of clinicians, methodologists and experts in the field of NIV. The committee developed recommendations based on the GRADE (Grading, Recommendation, Assessment, Development and Evaluation) methodology for each actionable question. The GRADE Evidence to Decision framework in the guideline development tool was used to generate recommendations. A number of topics were addressed using technical summaries without recommendations and these are discussed in the supplementary material.This guideline committee developed recommendations for 11 actionable questions in a PICO (population-intervention-comparison-outcome) format, all addressing the use of NIV for various aetiologies of ARF. The specific conditions where recommendations were made include exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cardiogenic pulmonary oedema, de novo hypoxaemic respiratory failure, immunocompromised patients, chest trauma, palliation, post-operative care, weaning and post-extubation.This document summarises the current state of knowledge regarding the role of NIV in ARF. Evidence-based recommendations provide guidance to relevant stakeholders.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Critical Care / methods
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Noninvasive Ventilation / methods*
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Respiratory Insufficiency* / diagnosis
Respiratory Insufficiency* / etiology
Respiratory Insufficiency* / therapy