High-flow nasal oxygen: a safe, efficient treatment for COVID-19 patients not in an ICU

Tiphaine Guy; Audrey Créac'hcadec; Charles Ricordel; Alexandre Salé; Baptiste Arnouat; Jean-Louis Bizec; Marie Langelot; Christine Lineau; David Marquette; Françoise Martin; Mathieu Lederlin; Stéphane Jouneau

doi:10.1183/13993003.01154-2020

High-flow nasal oxygen: a safe, efficient treatment for COVID-19 patients not in an ICU

Eur Respir J. 2020 Nov 12;56(5):2001154. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01154-2020. Print 2020 Nov.

Authors

Tiphaine Guy^{1

2}, Audrey Créac'hcadec^{1

2}, Charles Ricordel^{3

4}, Alexandre Salé³, Baptiste Arnouat¹, Jean-Louis Bizec¹, Marie Langelot¹, Christine Lineau¹, David Marquette¹, Françoise Martin¹, Mathieu Lederlin^{5

6}, Stéphane Jouneau^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Bretagne Atlantique, Vannes, France.
² Both authors contributed equally.
³ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Competence Centre for Rare Pulmonary Diseases, CHU Rennes, University of Rennes, Rennes, France.
⁴ INSERM U1242, Chemistry Oncogenesis Stress and Signalling, CLCC Eugène Marquis, Rennes, France.
⁵ Dept of Radiology, CHU Rennes, University of Rennes, Rennes, France.
⁶ LTSI, INSERM U1099, University of Rennes, Rennes, France.
⁷ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Competence Centre for Rare Pulmonary Diseases, CHU Rennes, University of Rennes, Rennes, France stephane.jouneau@chu-rennes.fr.
⁸ University of Rennes, CHU Rennes, INSERM, EHESP, IRSET (Institut de recherche en santé, environnement et travail) - UMR_S 1085, Rennes, France.

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 infected patients with nonhypercapnic acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure can benefit from high-flow nasal oxygen outside an ICU. The technique appears to be safe for healthcare workers and could well liberate critical ICU resources. https://bit.ly/2Xq80iu

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Cannula
Coronavirus Infections / complications*
Coronavirus Infections / therapy*
Critical Care
Humans
Noninvasive Ventilation*
Oxygen Inhalation Therapy*
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / complications*
Pneumonia, Viral / therapy*
SARS-CoV-2