[GUTI-VAL apparatus: respiratory deficiency and non-invasive ventilation]. / Dispositivo GUTI-VAL. Insuficiencia respiratoria con ventilación no invasiva.

Mechanical non-invasive ventilation provides a useful therapeutic option to treat some types of respiratory deficiencies. This apparatus improves the morbid mortality rate and shortens hospital stays especially since it prevents tracheotomy, but it can produce some inconveniences. The authors evaluate the efficiency of the GUTI-VAL Connection Apparatus in the treatment of patients suffering from a respiratory deficiency used along with a CPAP mask in terms of the degree of comfort and acceptance patients have, the prevention of a tracheotomy and of cutaneous lesions. This study, run over a 13 month period, dealt with patients checked into our Intensive Care Unit, a multidimensional unit in a county hospital, suffering from acute respiratory deficiencies or chronic acute deficiencies to whom treatment with mechanical non-invasive ventilation type CPAP with a GUTI-VAL apparatus was applied. The authors conclude that this apparatus proved to have a low mortality rate, few complications and good patient tolerance.

Dispositivo GUTI-VAL. Insuficiencia respiratoria con ventilación no invasiva / GUTI-VAL apparatus: respiratory deficiency and non-invasive ventilation

La ventilación mecánica no invasiva (VMNI) supone una opción terapéutica útil en el tratamiento de ciertos tipos de insuficiencia respiratoria. Mejora las tasas de morbi-mortalidad y acorta la estancia hospitalaria, sobre todo al evitar la intubación, pero puede producir inconvenientes. Se evalúa la eficacia del dispositivo de sujeción GUTI-VAL en el tratamiento de la insuficiencia respiratoria con la mascarilla CPAP en términos de comodidad y aceptación del paciente, prevención de la intubación de lesiones cutáneas. Se trata de pacientes ingresados a lo largo de 13 meses en nuestra UCI, unidad polivalente de un hospital comarcal, por insuficiencia respiratoria aguda o crónica agudizada, a los que se trató con VMNI modo CPAP con el dispositivo GUTI-VAL. Se concluye que dicho dispositivo se asocia a baja morbilidad, escasas complicaciones y buena tolerancia

Mechanical non-invasive ventilation provides a useful therapeutic option to treat some types of respiratory deficiencies. This apparatus improves the morbid mortality rate and shortens hospital stays especially since it prevents tracheotomy, but it can produce some inconveniences. The authors evaluate the efficiency of the GUTI-VAL Connection Apparatus in the treatment of patients suffering from a respiratory deficiency used along with a CPAP mask in terms of the degree of comfort and acceptance patients have, the prevention of a tracheotomy and of cutaneous lesions. This study, run over a 13 month period, dealt with patients checked into our Intensive Care Unit, a multidimensional unit in a county hospital, suffering from acute respiratory deficiencies or chronic acute deficiencies to whom treatment with mechanical non-invasive ventilation type CPAP with a GUTI-VAL apparatus was applied. The authors conclude that this apparatus proved to have a low mortality rate, few complications and good patient tolerance