BCV has been successfully used on patients with:
- Acute Respiratory Failure
- Neuromuscular (E.g. SMA,Duchene’s etc)
- Problems with Weaning from PPV
- Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and those who require chest physiotherapy
- Asthma
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Head and Spinal Injuries
- Ventilation during anesthesia in Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) Procedures
- Aids Related Lung Disease
- Ventilation Post-‐Operation (E.g. post-‐coronary bypass, Fontan, Fallot, post-‐pneumonectomy)
- Other patients problems that will potentially respond to BCV:
- Need for ongoing recruitment of alveoli and small airways
- Conditions requiring non-‐invasive support for relief of increased WOB
- Small airways disease
- Need to improve oxygenation
- Need to decrease RV workload and improve function
- CO2 retention
- Low or absent drive
- Fatigued weak or poorly innervated pulmonary musculature
- Anomalous cardiac flow situations
- Restrictive processes
- Obstructive processes
- Mixed obstructive and restrictive
- Muco-‐proliferative lungs
- Reoccurring atelectasis/pneumonias
- Reoccurring pneumothoraces
- Other means of support have not worked or is not desired i.e. BiPAP due to skin issues, or desire to avoid trach and PPV
- Many more…