Predictive value of daily living score in acute respiratory failure of COPD patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation pilot study

摘要

BackgroundMechanical ventilation (MV) is imperative in many forms of acute respiratory failure (ARF) in COPD patients. Previous studies have shown the difficulty to identify parameters predicting the outcome of COPD patients treated by invasive MV. Our hypothesis was that a non specialized score as the activities daily living (ADL) score may help to predict the outcome of these patients.