The rate of reintubation at 72 hours and 28 days was not different among patients with hypoxemia after extubation who received VenturiMask oxygen compared with high-flow nasal oxygen.
The VenturiMask provides gas mixtures to patients at higher flow rates compared with low-flow devices used for oxygen therapy in previous studies, Salvatore Maurizio Maggiore, MD, PhD, from the department of innovative technologies in medicine and dentistry at Gabriele d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara and the department of anesthesiology, critical care medicine and emergency at SS Annunziata Hospital