PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Gonzalez-Bermejo, Jesus
AU  - Janssens, Jean-Paul
AU  - Rabec, Claudio
AU  - Perrin, Christophe
AU  - Lofaso, Frédéric
AU  - Langevin, Bruno
AU  - Carlucci, Annalisa
AU  - Lujan, Manel
ED - 
TI  - Framework for patient-ventilator asynchrony during long-term non-invasive ventilation
AID  - 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2018-213022
DP  - 2019 Jul 01
TA  - Thorax
PG  - 715--717
VI  - 74
IP  - 7
4099  - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/74/7/715.short
4100  - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/74/7/715.full
SO  - Thorax2019 Jul 01; 74
AB  - Episodes of patient-ventilator asynchrony (PVA) occur during acute and chronic non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NIV). In long-term NIV, description and quantification of PVA is not standardised, thus limiting assessment of its clinical impact. The present report provides a framework for a systematic analysis of polygraphic recordings of patients under NIV for the detection and classification of PVA validated by bench testing. The algorithm described uses two different time windows: rate asynchrony and intracycle asynchrony. This approach should facilitate further studies on prevalence and clinical impact of PVA in long-term NIV.