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Article History

Received: 17 November 2020

Accepted: 6 January 2021

First Online: 15 January 2021

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: InterfaceVent is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03013283. The protocol complied with the Declaration of Helsinki and was reviewed and approved by an independent ethics committee (<i>Comité de Protection des Personnes Sud Mediterranée 1</i>; reference number RO-2016/50).

: Not applicable.

: Dr Carey Suehs reports one grant from AstraZeneca, outside the submitted work.Dr. Jean Christian Borel reports grants from Philips, during the conduct of the study; grants and personal fees from Philips, salaries from AGIR à dom, personal fees and other from RESMED, other from NOMICS, outside the submitted work.Dr Claudio Rabec has performed lecturing at sponsored meetings and/or participated in boards for the following companies in the last 5 years: Resmed, Philips, Lowenstein, Air Liquide Medical Systems.Pr. Arnaud Bourdin reports grants, personal fees, non-financial support and other from AstraZeneca, grants, personal fees, non-financial support and other from Boeringher Ingelheim, grants, personal fees, non-financial support and other from GlaxoSmithKline, personal fees, non-financial support and other from Novartis, personal fees and non-financial support from Teva, personal fees, non-financial support and other from Regeneron, personal fees, non-financial support and other from Chiesi Farmaceuticals, grants, personal fees, non-financial support and other from Actelion, personal fees from Gilead, non-financial support and other from Roche, other from Nuvaira, from null, outside the submitted work.Dr Dany Jaffuel has performed lecturing at sponsored meetings for the following companies in the last 5 years: Apard, Bastide, Loewenstein Medical, Philips, SEFAM. He has sat on advisory boards for the following companies in the last 5 years: Lowenstein Medical, SEFAM. He has received sponsorship support to attend academic meetings in the last 5 years from Lowenstein Medical, Resmed, Philips and SEFAM.MCR, JPM, CM, FB, NM, report no conflicts of interest in relation to the present work.