Does prophylactic non-invasive mechanical ventilation improve functional capacity in cardiac patients after heart valve replacement?
Prophylactic non-invasive ventilation improves functional capacity after heart valve replacement but does not reduce ICU or hospital length of stay.
Non-invasive ventilation as a therapeutic resource was effective toward improving functionality; however, non-invasive ventilation did not influence the intensive care unit or hospitalization times of the studied cardiac patients.
Araújo-Filho et al. (Sun,) studied this question.