Michele Vitacca

capo Dipartimento, Dirigente medico

Vitacca, Rubini, Foglio, Scalvini, Nava , Ambrosino "Non invasive modalities of positive pressure ventilation improve the outcome of acute exacerbations in COLD patients" Intensive Care Med 1993 19:450-455

Nava S, Ambrosino N, Clini E, Prato M, Orlando G, Vitacca M, Brigada P, C Fracchia, Rubini F. “ Non invasive mechanical ventilation in the weaning of patients with respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A randomized controlled trial. Ann Intern Med 1998;128:721-728.

M. Vitacca, Stefano Nava, Marco confalonieri, Luca Bianchi,  Roberto Porta, Enrico Clini, Nicolino Ambrosino. The appropriate setting on noninvasive pressure support ventilation in stable COPD patients.  CHEST 2000; 118:1286-1293

Vitacca M, Vianello A, Colombo D, Clini E, Porta R, Bianchi L, Arcaro G, Guffanti E, Lo Coco A, Ambrosino N. “Comparison of two methods for weaning COPD patients requiring mechanical ventilation for more than 15 days”. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2001; 164: 225-230.

M. Vitacca, L. Bianchi,  E. Zanotti, A. Vianello, M. Zigliani, L. Barbano, R. Porta, E. Clini. Assessment of physiological variables and subjective comfort under different levels of pressure support ventilation. CHEST 2004; 126:851-859

Michele Vitacca, Giovanna Callegari, Maria Sarvà, Luca Bianchi, Luca Barbano, Bruno Balbi, Nicolino Ambrosino. Physiological effects of meal in difficult-to wean tracheotomised patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Intensive Care Medicine 2005; 31:236-242.

M. Vitacca, L. Bianchi, A. Guerra, C. Fracchia, A.Spanevello, B. Balbi, S.Scalvini. Tele-assistance in Chronic Respiratory Failure Patients: a Randomised Clinical Trial. Eur Respir J 2009; 33: 411–418

M. Vitacca, M. Grassi, L. Barbano, G. Galavotti, C. Sturani, A. Vianello, E. Zanotti, L. Ballerin, A. Potena, R. Scala, A. Peratoner, P. Ceriana, L. Di Buono, E. Clini, N. Ambrosino, N. Hill, S. Nava. Last 3 months of life in home ventilated patients: the family perception. Eur Respir J 2010 35:1-8

Michele Vitacca MD. Telemonitoring in chronic respiratory insufficiency patients: expectations deluded ? Thorax. 2016 Mar 9. pii: thoraxjnl-2015-208211. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-208211.

Nicolino Ambrosino, Michele Vitacca, Michael Dreher, Valentina Isetta, Josep M Montserrat, Tonia Thomy, Giuseppe Turchetti, Joao Carlos Winck, Felip Burgos, Michael Kampelmacher, Guido Vagheggini, on behalf of the ERS Tele-monitoring of ventilator-dependent patients: a European Respiratory Society Statement. Eur Respir J 2016 in press