... authors areCommentaryNoninvasive ventilation for acute lung injury: how often should we try, how often should we fail?Erik Garpestad and Nicholas S HillDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care and ... to treat acute respiratory failure for well over a decade, our know-ledge on how best to apply it continues to evolve. Relativelylittle debate surrounds its use for acute respiratory failure ... pulmonary disease[1], cardiogenic pulmonary edema [2] or in immunocompro-mised hosts [3]. However, its appropriate use to treathypoxemic respiratory failure, particularly patients with acute lung...