https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2021.1796
Non-invasive ventilation in the elderly – never too late!
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Dear Editor,
Practising evidence-based medicine in an ageing population is challenging. Nevertheless, using age as a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure contraindication is less and less common. Domiciliary non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in chronic respiratory failure patients has been largely used; however, data from older people is scarce...
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Mendonça Almeida, Leonor, Maria Jacob, Mafalda van Zeller, Tiago Pinto, Miguel Gonçalves, and Marta Drummond. 2021. “Non-Invasive Ventilation in the Elderly – Never Too Late!”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 91 (3). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2021.1796.
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