title: Non-invasive ventilation is useful in paediatric intensive care units if children are appropriately selected and carefully monitored.
abstract: Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is commonly used in paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) for respiratory failure. This review aims to improve paediatricians' understanding of NIV, by specifying technical or practical considerations, giving advice about selecting patients and presenting pertinent published data about NIV in different circumstances.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  NIV is useful in PICUs if children are appropriately selected and carefully monitored. Technological advances and future clinical research will improve its use and success rate in PICU.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Centre Hospitalier Chrétien (clinique de l'Espérance), Liège, Belgium.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Demaret
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Centre Hospitalier Chrétien (clinique de l'Espérance), Liège, Belgium.
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mulder
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Centre Hospitalier Chrétien (clinique de l'Espérance), Liège, Belgium.
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Loeckx
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Centre Hospitalier Régional de la Citadelle, Liège, Belgium.
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Trippaerts
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Centre Hospitalier Chrétien (clinique de l'Espérance), Liège, Belgium.
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lebrun
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003422:Critical Care; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015278:Intensive Care Units, Pediatric; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D063087:Noninvasive Ventilation; D018579:Patient Selection; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Acute respiratory failure; Critical care; Critically ill child; Intensive care; Non-invasive ventilation