Noninvasive ventilation helps treat hypoxemia secondary to COVID-19 and may prevent intubation, but the likelihood of survival decreases in patients who fail this method of ventilation.
More research may be needed to investigate which COVID-19 patients stand to benefit most from noninvasive ventilation as a supportive measure to prevent intubation.
“Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, patients who were hypoxic—no matter how good they looked clinically—were immediately intubated for