Treatment of Acute Hypoxemic Nonhypercapnic Respiratory Insufficiency With Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Delivered by a Face Mask

The American-European Consensus Conference on ARDS. Definitions, mechanisms, relevant outcomes, and clinical trial coordination.

1994 • 6,682 citations

A new Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS II) based on a European/North American multicenter study

1993 • 6,337 citations

Noninvasive Ventilation for Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

1995 • 1,928 citations

Treatment of the Idiopathic Respiratory-Distress Syndrome with Continuous Positive Airway Pressure

1971 • 1,181 citations

A Comparison of Noninvasive Positive-Pressure Ventilation and Conventional Mechanical Ventilation in Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure

1998 • 1,003 citations

Risk Factors for Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Critically Ill Patients

1994 • 952 citations

Testing for Qualitative Interactions between Treatment Effects and Patient Subsets

1985 • 638 citations

Acute Respiratory Failure in Patients with Severe Community-acquired Pneumonia

1999 • 612 citations

Noninvasive Pressure Support Ventilation in Patients With Acute Respiratory Failure

1995 • 474 citations

Continuous positive airway pressure by face mask in acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema

1985 • 367 citations

Reappraisal of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Therapy in Acute Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema

1995 • 320 citations

Ventilatory and hemodynamic effects of continuous positive airway pressure in left heart failure.

1997 • 313 citations

Effect of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation on mortality in patients admitted with acute respiratory failure

1997 • 311 citations

Inspiratory Work with and without Continuous Positive Airway-Pressure in Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure

1985 • 248 citations

Prevalence, etiologies and outcome of the acute respiratory distress syndrome among hypoxemic ventilated patients

1999 • 191 citations

The Logistic Organ Dysfunction System

1997 • 164 citations

Continuous positive airway pressure by face mask in Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

1990 • 68 citations

Treatment of the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome with Continuous Positive Airway Pressure

1979 • 65 citations

Continuous positive airway pressure by face mask or mechanical ventilation in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection and severePneumocystis carinii pneumonia

1992 • 58 citations

Can postoperative continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) prevent pulmonary complications after abdominal surgery?

1981 • 57 citations

Use of CPAP mask as the sole mode of ventilatory support in trauma patients with mild to moderate respiratory insufficiency.

1985 • 52 citations

Experience with the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy in the emergency management of acute severe cardiogenic pulmonary oedema

1997 • 43 citations

Non-invasive continuous positive airway pressure in acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure???experience of an emergency department

1998 • 32 citations

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) vs. intermittent mandatory pressure release ventilation (IMPRV) in patients with acute respiratory failure

1992 • 23 citations

The use of continuous positive airway pressure in blast injury of the chest

1980 • 20 citations