High Flow Nasal Cannula With Noninvasive Ventilation

Standard of care. Flexible tube to provide extra oxygen when patients need a little help, but are not in respiratory distress.

Same as nasal cannula, except the oxygen is heated or humidified and the flow is stronger, pushing air into the lungs to help keep the airway open.

This method uses HFNC as described above and adds noninvasive ventilation which is similar to CPAP machine and uses a mask rather than having to intubate (putting a tube down your throat to keep your airway from collapsing).