Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation for Stable Patients with Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (review)
HAN Qi-zheng
QI Mei
Abstract：The addition of long-term noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) to a pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) program in stable patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can enhance the effects of PR, continuely improve exercise tol-erance and dyspnea, stabilize pulmonary function, enhance health-related quality of life. Moreover, it maybe improve the prognosis of the pa-tients with COPD. This article introduced the implement of the combination of PR and NPPV in stable patients with advanced COPD.
Keywords：noninvasive positive pressure ventilationpulmonary rehabilitationchronic obstructive pulmonary diseasereview
Publication Date：2013-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 853-855 )