Table 1.

Etiology of respiratory failure treated with noninvasive ventilation

Condition	Patients Receiving NIV (n = 22,706) %
Pneumonia	26.1
COPD	15.0
HF	15.0
Nonpneumonia sepsis	4.6
Asthma	3.6
Other*	35.6

Definition of abbreviations: COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; HF = heart failure; NIV = noninvasive ventilation.

^*Most common diagnoses that constitute “other” include acute or chronic respiratory failure not otherwise specified, acute or chronic myocardial ischemia, cardiac arrhythmia, acute kidney injury, and opioid overdose.