American Nurse Today Highlights Renewed Use of Noninvasive Positive-Pressure Ventilation as a Means to Reduce the Risk of Mechanical Ventilation
Doylestown, PA, April 22, 2009 --(PR.com)-- An old idea—noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV)—is getting a new look for patients who need assistance with ventilation.
In the April issue of American Nurse Today, Mark Bauman, MS, RN, CCRN, senior clinical nurse in the Select Trauma ICU at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, describes the use, indications, and nursing care related to NPPV in a 1.8 contact hours continuing education program “Noninvasive ventilation makes a comeback.”
NPPV was commonly used in the early 20th century, with the “iron lung” for treating patients with postpolio syndrome the most well known use. By the 1960s, mechanical ventilation became the norm, but now clinicians are turning to NPPV as an alternative to mechanical ventilation.
In his article, Bauman notes the benefits of NPPV, writing, “In carefully chosen candidates with respiratory failure, it provides ventilatory assistance without the complications that have been linked to artificial airways, such as ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), airway injury, sinusitis, increased need for sedatives or paralytics (or both), altered communication, and decreased ability to perform activities of daily living.”
Patients with progressive respiratory failure over time and some respiratory reserve are the typical candidates for NPPV, including those with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
“Preventing or reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia is a national safety initiative,” says Pamela Cipriano, PhD, RN, FAAN, NEA-BC, Editor-in-Chief of American Nurse Today. “Mark shows how NPPV can reduce the risk of VAP, and gives nurses what they need to know to care for patients receiving this form of therapy.”
American Nurse Today reaches 175,000 nurses including 160,000 members of ANA. In addition to keeping nurses abreast of ANA’s advocacy for the profession, American Nurse Today provides valuable, peer-reviewed, evidence based clinical, practical and career information that nurses can assimilate into their busy practices immediately.
HealthCom Media is a specialty publishing company located in Doylestown, PA. The company also publishes other specialty journals including Menopause Management, Assisted Living Consult, and Medicare Patient Management.
The American Nurses Association is the only full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.9 million registered nurses through its 54 constituent member associations. The ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying Congress and the regulatory agencies on healthcare issues affecting nurses and the public.
The American Nurses Association Center for Continuing Education and Professional Development is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing,
Provider Number 6178.
For more information, please contact Tyra London, Associate Publisher, HealthCom Media at (215) 489-7000, ext.117, e-mail: tlondon@healthcommedia.com or Eileen Gallen, Editorial Manager, at ext. 131,
e-mail: egallen@healthcommedia.com.
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In the April issue of American Nurse Today, Mark Bauman, MS, RN, CCRN, senior clinical nurse in the Select Trauma ICU at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, describes the use, indications, and nursing care related to NPPV in a 1.8 contact hours continuing education program “Noninvasive ventilation makes a comeback.”
NPPV was commonly used in the early 20th century, with the “iron lung” for treating patients with postpolio syndrome the most well known use. By the 1960s, mechanical ventilation became the norm, but now clinicians are turning to NPPV as an alternative to mechanical ventilation.
In his article, Bauman notes the benefits of NPPV, writing, “In carefully chosen candidates with respiratory failure, it provides ventilatory assistance without the complications that have been linked to artificial airways, such as ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), airway injury, sinusitis, increased need for sedatives or paralytics (or both), altered communication, and decreased ability to perform activities of daily living.”
Patients with progressive respiratory failure over time and some respiratory reserve are the typical candidates for NPPV, including those with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
“Preventing or reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia is a national safety initiative,” says Pamela Cipriano, PhD, RN, FAAN, NEA-BC, Editor-in-Chief of American Nurse Today. “Mark shows how NPPV can reduce the risk of VAP, and gives nurses what they need to know to care for patients receiving this form of therapy.”
American Nurse Today reaches 175,000 nurses including 160,000 members of ANA. In addition to keeping nurses abreast of ANA’s advocacy for the profession, American Nurse Today provides valuable, peer-reviewed, evidence based clinical, practical and career information that nurses can assimilate into their busy practices immediately.
HealthCom Media is a specialty publishing company located in Doylestown, PA. The company also publishes other specialty journals including Menopause Management, Assisted Living Consult, and Medicare Patient Management.
The American Nurses Association is the only full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.9 million registered nurses through its 54 constituent member associations. The ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying Congress and the regulatory agencies on healthcare issues affecting nurses and the public.
The American Nurses Association Center for Continuing Education and Professional Development is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing,
Provider Number 6178.
For more information, please contact Tyra London, Associate Publisher, HealthCom Media at (215) 489-7000, ext.117, e-mail: tlondon@healthcommedia.com or Eileen Gallen, Editorial Manager, at ext. 131,
e-mail: egallen@healthcommedia.com.
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