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Pattaraporn Panyarath1, Veronique Adam2, R John Kimoff3

  • 1Respiratory Division and Sleep Laboratory, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and Division of Respiratory and Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand. pattaraporn.panyarath@mail.mcgill.ca.

Respiratory Care
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Keywords:
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)apnea-hypopnea indexbi-level spontaneous timed ventilationintelligent volume-assured pressure support (iVAPS)noninvasive ventilation (NIV)respiratory therapist interventions

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