title: Nasal ventilation in acute ventilatory failure due to chronic obstructive airways disease.
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authors.lastname: Freedman
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D006801:Humans; D007385:Intermittent Positive-Pressure Ventilation / Q000379:methods*; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000150:complications*; D009666:Nose; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*