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ecj-3754	Bellone, Andrea; Motta, Luca; Etteri, Massimiliano; Bianchi, Anna Maria; Cappelletti, Anna; Bossi, Ilaria; Guanziroli, Massimo; Pina, Paolo; Colombo, Livio	Ventimask in exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and mild acidosis before starting with bilevel positive airway pressure	2014	3	.pdf	application/pdf	2461	123	55	Oxygen therapy to correct the hypoxemia becomes necessary, but it may sometimes lead to a reduction in ventilation and may worsen the inequality of ventilation/perfusion ratio caused by release of hypoxic vasoconstriction.1 Various attempts to overcome this adverse effect, namely a danger- ous rise in the arterial carbon dioxide tension (PaCO2), include oxygen by nasal probes or catheter or simple disposable masks based on the Venturi principle which allow for fixed con- centrations of oxygen. The primary endpoint was to evaluate the efficacy of oxygen therapy with Ventimask compared with Venturi mask in terms of avoid- ing the need for non-invasive bilevel-PAP dur- ing the 1st h and reducing PaCO2 retention.	cache/ecj-3754.pdf	txt/ecj-3754.txt