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Bilevel non-invasive ventilation in malignant large airways obstruction during chemotherapy and radiotherapy
R K Grant1, R J Boots, J D McEvoy
1Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Queensland.
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
|July 2, 1999
Abstract:
A case is described of acute respiratory failure secondary to variable intrathoracic large airway obstruction due to a lung neoplasm. Successful ventilation was achieved with facemask bilevel non-invasive ventilatory assistance allowing radiotherapy and chemotherapy to be undertaken.