Is BIPAP Considered Life Support?

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Quick Tip for Families in ICU: Is BIPAP considered life support?

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Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care.

So, today’s tip is about a question that we get quite frequently, and the question is, “Is BIPAP considered life support? Even though I think I know the answer, as part of my research, I typed that into Google and had a look what the answer is from Google. And there’s no straightforward answer from any article, whether it is considered life support, or it’s not considered life support. Now, let me break this down for you. And from my experience, the answer is that it really depends.

So, there are people at home that have BIPAP for sleep apnea and they are perfectly healthy during daytime. They go about their business, they go about their lives, but they have a BIPAP machine overnight because they have obstructive and sometimes central sleep apnea. And if then wouldn’t be using BiPAP, their CO2 or carbon dioxide would rise, and they would become drowsy and sleepy.

Is that considered life support? One might argue that it is life support because what if CO2 keeps rising? People get confused and drowsy, and they have a fall and they hit their head and they end up in ICU. So, one could argue that this might be considered life support.

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