Objectives: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the risk of collapse for the health system created great difficulties. We will demonstrate that intermediate respiratory care units (IRCU) provide adequate management of patients with non-invasive respiratory support, which is particularly important for patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia. Methods: A prospective observational study of patients with COVID-19 admitted to the ICU of a tertiary hospital.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Patients admitted to Intermediate Respiratory Care Units are common sharpeners. We describe their overall improvement by the introduction of an Integrated Care Process.
Methods: We conducted an observational descriptive study based on an Intermediate Respiratory Care Unit during 2015-2017.
Arch Bronconeumol
December 2005
In the following exposure, we revised the possibility that the treatment of sleep-disordered breathing with continuous nasal positive airway pressure could be potentially beneficial in three aspects: to control the sleep-disordered breathing as a risk factor for stroke, acting, in this sense, as primary prophylaxis; improving the prognosis of stroke, through conditioning a better functional recuperation or a lower mortality and finally through the control of recurrences, acting, in this sense, as secondary prophylaxis.
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