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Reducing Rebreathing During Noninvasive Ventilation: Bias Flow or No Bias Flow?

Giuseppe AccursoGiovanni MisseriAndrea CortegianiCesare GregorettiLorenzo Ball

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Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineNoninvasive Ventilationbusiness.industryMasksleakGeneral MedicineCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicinelaw.invention03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicine030228 respiratory systemFlow (mathematics)lawflowVentilation (architecture)MedicineNoninvasive ventilationCardiac OutputbusinessBiomedical engineering

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To the Editor : We read with interest the article by Signori et al[1][1] that evaluated CO2 rebreathing during noninvasive ventilation (NIV) via a full face mask connected to a double-limb ventilation circuit with 2 different configurations: (1) a single mask connector directly attached to the Y-

10.4187/respcare.07185https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30914487