Noninvasive Ventilation

Introduction

What is noninvasive ventilation? If you are a person who googles everything, then you will find that noninvasive ventilation (NIV) refers to the administration of ventilatory support without using an invasive artificial airway (endotracheal tube or tracheostomy tube). Now if you are a person that likes to look at books to get the answer, then David W. Chang wrote in Clinical Application of Mechanical Ventilation that “noninvasive positive pressure ventilation is a technique of providing ventilation without the use of an artificial airway.” Whatever you want the definition to be, the purpose is all the same: to help the ventilation of the patient without having an artificial airway. Now that does not sound too bad, but what about
There are many different interfaces for noninvasive ventilation, so some may be less harmful than others. In this paper we will investigate all the different reasons a patient can get this discomfort from a mask. Now let's say that a patient has gotten a lesion from being on mechanical ventilation for a while, how can a medical profession help the patient recover from this? Can medical professionals prevent the discomfort from the mask? With the medical field always advancing, people have developed pieces to help the discomfort. Let's investigate the devices that can be placed to prevent or lessen the chance of discomfort and a lesion on a patient. I know there are a lot of questions so far to think about on the topic of noninvasive ventilation, but most people will still pick it over invasive, even with the thought of a lesion appearing on their face. Now that all these questions are floating through your head, let's
Anne-Kathrin Brill wrote in How to avoid interface problems in acute noninvasive ventilation that “Interface-related pressure ulcers are medical-device related pressure ulcers and the longer the treatment lasts the more likely they are to develop. A number of patient-dependent risk factors facilitate their occurrence, but the literature shows that the main cause for theses pressure ulcers is often associated with a lack of understanding of how and how often to remove devices and inspect the skin, and how to ensure the device fits appropriately to minimise friction and pressure.” When a patient needs noninvasive ventilation it means that he or she is having a hard time breathing, but that does not mean he or she needs to have the mask on every second. Changing from a mask to a different interface periodically can help lessen the chances skin