Introductory: Non Invasive Ventilation in Medicine

Abstract

With the worldwide increasing use of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) and many updated evidences coming under the application of NIV in neuromuscular disease, neonates, and open circuit mouthpiece ventilation apart from the documented success of NIV in OSA, COPD, type 2 respiratory failure and pulmonary edema, it is the time to get more knowledge about its application for various chronic respiratory diseases such as interstitial lung disease and non-respiratory disease characterized by type 1 or type 2 respiratory failure in due course of time, and it is also important to know the potential application of NIV in children and neonates and as a mode for weaning from the mechanical ventilation, NIV is a rapidly changing field; hence, it is very important in clinical practice to have expertise in applying the technique and acquiring problem-solving skills of NIV.