Table 1.
Clinical characteristics of 624 children started on long-term non-invasive ventilation.
Table 2.
Diagnostic categories and disease subgroups leading to initiation of non-invasive ventilation. (adapted from Wallis, 2011) [13].
Table 3.
Summary of deaths in children using non-invasive ventilation by diagnostic categories.
Fig 1.
New NIV starts, discharges and total number of children followed by the NIV programs.
NIV, non-invasive ventilation.
Table 4.
Longitudinal trends in the clinical characteristics of children using long-term non-invasive ventilation.
Table 5.
Longitudinal trends in the technology for children using long-term non-invasive ventilation.
Table 6.
Longitudinal trends in mortality and discontinuation rates for children using long-term non-invasive ventilation.
Fig 2.
Kaplan-meier survival curves in children on long-tern NIV by diagnostic category.
Category “Unclassified” was excluded because there were no deaths in this group. There were significant differences in survival curves by diagnostic category (Log-Rank test, p<0.001). Indicated below, the number of children at risk for death within each diagnostic category per year.
Table 7.
Longitudinal trends in mortality rate for children using long-term non-invasive ventilation within each diagnostic category.