High Flow Nasal Cannula: Does my patient need to be intubated?

The article I'm referencing in this post is titled: An Index Combining Respiratory Rate and Oxygenation to Predict Outcome of Nasal High-Flow Therapy. It was published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine in June of 2019.  We see this every day in the intensive care unit. A patient with pneumonia sucking wind. Tachypenic. Slightly …

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