Non-invasive Ventilation in Children With Neuromuscular Disease

• Main Authors: Brigitte Fauroux (Author), Sonia Khirani (Author), Lucie Griffon (Author), Theo Teng (Author), Agathe Lanzeray (Author), Alessandro Amaddeo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The respiratory muscles are rarely spared in children with neuromuscular diseases (NMD) which puts them at risk of alveolar hypoventilation. The role of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is then to assist or "replace" the weakened respiratory muscles in order to correct alveolar hypoventilati...